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REICHNER AND AIKEN
GENEALOGIES
COMPILED AND EDITED BY
L. IRVING REICHNER
OF
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Twenty-five copies printed, of which this is Xo.
1146153
These records were orginally prepared in the form of
a pamphlet upon each family. They are now bound in
one volume. For that reason some material has been
repeated in each family line.
Owing to the great research required, it has been
impossible at this time to extend the history to cover
0 any line other than the direct descent in each family
v^ from the immigrant ancestor to the children of the
1^ editor. Much has been left to be done by others
j interested in enlarging the scope of these pamphlets.
All deed and will books herein referred to as at
Trenton, N. J., are in the Secretary of State's Office at
, „ the State House in Trenton. In other localities thev
fcb can be found at the County Court House in the town
y) indicated.
\ All other books of reference are in The Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Phila-
delphia, Pa., where the Collections of The Genealogical
Society of Pennsylvania are also lodged. These latter
collections are authentic copies of various church and
meeting records through-out Pennsylvania and New
Jersey.
GENERAL INDEX.
PART I.
The Ancestors of Loris Reichner, Jr., and Christe\xa Stephens,
HIS Wife.
pages
1. Rcichner Family of Philadelphia County, Pa i to i6
2. Stephens Family of Gloucester County, X. J 17 to ^^2
3. Fraser Family of Philadelphia, Pa ,33 to 36
4. York and Henry Families of Cape May County, X. J 37 to 39
5. Moore and Howtzell Families of Philadelphia, Pa 41 to 46
6. Clark Family of Gloucester County, N.J 47 to 54
7. Reeves Family of Burlington and Gloucester Counties,
N.J 55 to 60
8. Weatherby Family of Salem County, X. J 61 to 66
9. Jones Family of Chester County, Pa 67 to 70
10. Cox and Nelson Families of Philadelphia, Pa., and Glouces-
ter County, N. J 71 to 78
11. Vanneman Family of Salem and Gloucester Counties, X. J. 79 to 87
12. Smith Family of Saiem County, N.J 89 to 97
13. Bull Family of Gloucester County, N. J 99 to 102
14. Denny Family of Gloucester County, N. J 103 to 107
15. Quinton Family of Salem County, N. J 109 to 113
16. Lubbertsen and Groesbeck Families of X^ew York 115 to 120
17. Hendrickson Family of Chester County, Pa 121 to 127
18. Justicson Family of Gloucester County, N. J 129 to 134
19. Biddle Family of Bucks County, Pa 135 to 137
GENERAL INDEX.
PART 11.
Thk Anxestors of William D. Aiken and Alice H. Slawson,
HIS Wife.
PAGES
1. Aiken Family of Fairfield County, S. C 139 to 146
2. Cloud Family of Edgefield and Chester Counties, S. C. . . . 147 to 150
3. Holmes Family of Richmond County, Ga 151 to 154
4. Slawson Family of Connecticut and New York 155 to 15^
5. Case Family of IMorris County, X. J., and Orange County,
X. Y 161 to 164
6. Budd Family of Connecticut and Xew York 165 to 168
7. Van Wickle Family of Somerset and Middlesex Counties,
X. J 169 to 177
H. Rue Family of Middlesex County, X. J., and Wayne
County, X. Y i79 to 1S3
9. Morgan Family of Middlesex County, X. J 185 to 193
10. Boice Family of Middlesex County, N. J 195 to 197
1 1 . Evertsen Family of Middlesex County, N.J 199 to 202
12. Couwenhoven Family of New York and New Jersey 203 to 209
13. Applegate, VanBaal, and Teller Families of X. Y 211 to 216
14. Dove Family of Middlesex County, X. J 217 to 219
I s. DeSille Family of Xew A'ork 22 1 to 226
REICH NER FAMILY
NOTE
All births, marriages and deaths occurring in Phila-
delphia subsequent to i860 may be found of record in
the Bureau of Vital Statistics (Health Department),
Philadelphia City Hall.
Births and deaths in Montgomery County subsequent
to 1893 are of record at the Court House, Norristown, Pa.
In this history some abbreviations have been made
and titles omitted, viz.:
Pa. Arch, refers to Pennsylvania State Archives.
Gen. Soc. of Pa. is The Genealogical Society of Penn-
sylvania. (Its authentic and valuable copies of church
records are at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia.)
Vol. 726 is the record of St. Luke's Reformed Church
at Trappe, Pa.
Vol. 725 is the record of the Reformed Church at
Falkner Swamp (New Hanover), Pa.
Vols. 218, 219, 220 are the records of the First Reformed
Church, Philadelphia.
Vol. 42 is the record of Yellow Fever Deaths in Phila-
delphia, 1793.
Reichner Papers, Vol. i, (Vol. 2552 Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
herein referred to, are a collection of photographs and
certified copies of original records, etc., necessary to
establish proof.
All of the reference volumes, including Philadelphia
City Directories and Reichner Papers, Vol. i, are to be
found at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300
Locust Street, Philadelphia.
REIGHNER FAMILY
George Reichner (i) arrived at the Port of Phila-
delphia, September i6th, 1751, on the ship "Nancy,"
Captain Thomas Coatam, Master, from Rotterdam.
(Pa. Arch., 2nd Sen, Vol. XVII, p. 338. Rupp's
List, p. 257.)
At that time he was twenty-seven years old, having
been born abroad November 22nd, 1724. He was a
descendant of the French Huguenot family Regnier,
which had settled in Lorraine.
(Tombstone in St. Luke's Churchyard, Trappe,
Pa. Reichner Papers, Vol. i, pp. 3, 152, Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
After his arrival in the New World, George Reichner,
in accordance with the Decree of the Provincial Council
of Pennsylvania passed in 1727, signed the oath of
allegiance to King George II at the Court House in
Philadelphia.
His signature appears upon the original paper on file
in the State Library at Harrisburg, Pa. A comparison
of this signature with that of George Reichner (Richner)
who signed his name as a witness to the will of Alartin
Calb in 1770, shows the same characteristics, altho'
George Reichner, as was the frequent custom, dropped
the prefix Hans after his arrival in America and shortened
his name to Richner or Reichner.
(Rupp's List, p. 488.)
Joseph Ritner, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1835
to 1839 belonged to the same family.
On June 2nd, 1754, "George Riechner and wife"
acted as sponsors at the baptism of George Jacob Herb,
son of Jacob and Elizabeth Herb, at the Reformed
Church at New Hanover (Falkner Swamp), Pa.
(Kline's Histor}^ of the Church at Falkner Swamp,
p. 367. Dotterer Papers, Vol. 2517, p. 133,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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George Reichner was a farmer and settled in Limerick
Township, then a part of Philadelphia County, and
appears on the tax list of 1769 as possessing "200 acres,
4 horses, 8 cattle and a servant" assessed in the name of
"George Reighner."
(Pa. Arch., 3rd wSer., Vol. XIV, p. 51.)
His use of the foreign character for "h" in signing
his name, in that it resembles the English letter "g,"
together with the various pronunciations of his name, led
to attempts at phonetic spelling in English, and we find
the name appearing in the records as Rignor, Riegner,
Reichner, Reegner, Richner, Riddener, Reighner, Regener,
Ritner, Rickner and Regner, referring to the same man,
as the autographs and recitals in wills and deeds prove.
On April 1 6th, 1770, George "Richner" acted as a
witness to the will of Martin Calb, also of Limerick
Township, Philadelphia County. Reference to his sig-
nature upon this original will identifies him as the George
Richner (Regner) who died in Limerick Township on
April 2nd, 1877, leaving a will bearing the same signature.
(Will No. 102 of 1775 and Will No. 22 of 1777,
Register of Wills Office, Phila., and photograph
of same in Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 94, Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
In 1774 his name appears upon the tax list of Lim-
erick Township.
(Pa. Arch., 3rd Ser., Vol. XIV, p. 367.)
On May 22nd, 1774, he signed a receipt at St. Luke's
Reformed Church, at Trappe, in Limerick Township.
(Records of St. Luke's Church, Vol. 726, p. 92,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In 1776 he is assessed in the same township as possess-
ing 200 acres, 2 horses and 5 cows.
(Bean's History of Montgomery Co., Pa., p. 919.)
Up until 1784 New Hanover (or Falkner Swamp) and
Trappe were in Limerick Township, Philadelphia County.
In 1784 Montgomery County was erected and took
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in a portion of Philadelphia County and these towns
became a part of Montgomery County.
George Reichner and his wife, Catharine, had the
following children:
Margaret, born 1751, married Jeremiah Weiser.
(Vol. 725, p. 380, Vol. 219, p. 1003, Gen. Soc. of
Pa. Phila. Deed Book I, 15, p. 281.)
Catharine, born 1753, died 1777.
(Vol. 725, pp. 314, 383, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
(Note. — In the Reformed Church Records it is a
frequent custom to add the suffix "in" to the
surnames of females.)
John (2), born August 27th, 1755, married Susana
Betz, died May 14th, 1832.
(Vol. 725, p. 32, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
George, born August 30th, 1758, married Sara Brown,
died October gth, 1793.
(Vol. 725, p. 45, Vol. 220, pp. 2158, 2692, Vol. 219,
854, 1024, 940, 1080, 1 155, Vol. 42, pp. 30, 146,
147, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Pa. Arch., 2nd Ser., Vol.
VIII, p. 706. Phila. Administration, 205 of
1793. Phila. Directories for 1791, 1793-)
Matthias, born 1761, married Elizabeth Huber.
(Vol. 725, pp. 52, 282, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Pa.
Arch., 2nd Ser., Vol. VIII, p. 611.)
Elizabeth, born 1763, married John Bitting.
(Vol. 725, pp. 60, 172, Vol. 219, pp. 944, loio,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Herman, born 1765.
Of the above sons the following did service in the
Revolution and against the Six Nations.
John, as a private in Captain Isaiah Davis' Eighth
Company, Fourth Battalion, Philadelphia County Militia.
(Pa. Arch., 6th Ser., Vol. I, p. 798.)
Matthias, as a private in Captain Henry Christ's
Company, Second Battalion of Rifles.
(Pa. Arch., 5th Ser., Vol. II, pp. 376, 384.)
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George, as a private in Company Six, Battalion
Three, Philadelphia MiHtia.
(Pa. Arch., 6th Ser., Vol. Ill, pp. 1067, 1153.)
In the old cemetery of St. Luke's Church at Trappe,
Montgomery County, Pa., across the road from the
present church building stands the tombstone of George
Reichner, with this inscription:
"Here lie the remains of Georg Richner who died
on the 2nd of April 1777. His age was 52 years
and 5 months.
"How well is my body suffering overcome and
how well is my soul in every joy of Heaven."
(Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 3, Gen. Soc. of
Pa.)
On the church records appears this entry:
"George Riegner died April 2-1777 "
His will was proved as that of "George Regner" in
Philadelphia on April 14th, 1777, altho' the testator
signs his name "Georg Richner."
(Phila. Will Book R, p. 23. Will No. 22 of 1777.)
The executors' account shows that he left an estate
of 2020 pounds English money, regarded a large amount
in those days.
(Reichner Papers, Vol. i, pp. i, 94, 95.)
In his will he is recited as a "yeoman" of Limerick
Township. Reference is made to his "plantation"
(220 acres) and he bequeaths his "bread corn," "wool on
the sheep" and all the "yarn linen & flax in the house."
Among the articles of household use given, we find "the
oil canister," yi dozen Pewter Plates, a "Pewter Tank-
ard" "a sacken bottom bedstead, a flesh fork, a spinning
wheel and a cotten wheel," "a dough trough," "a Psalm
book and all the Shoe Leather, hemp for shoe thread and
all the Rosin & Wax in the house." The executors are
directed to pay for making up the leather into shoes for
the widow and minor children.
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In the inventory of the estate are also listed 14 cows,
a bull, 5 horses, 5 lambs, 14 sheep, 8 shoats and 5 hives of
bees. His tall case clock appraised at ten pounds is now
in the possession of Louis Irving Reichner, of Phila-
delphia, having been handed down in each generation.
In his will George Reichner mentions his wife, Catherine,
and his children, Margaret, Catherine, John, George,
Matthias, Elizabeth and Herman. He names as exe-
cutors his son John and his son-in-law Jeremiah Weiser.
His widow, Catherine, survived him sixteen years,
dying October 9th, 1793, during the great yellow fever
plague, at the house of her son George, 213 North Second
Street, Philadelphia, who also died of the plague upon
the same day. In the report of their deaths they are
spoken of as "Calvinists." This plague killed over
5000 persons in Philadelphia, a tenth of the city's popu-
lation.
(Carey on Fever, p. 152. Vol. 220, p. 2692, Vol.
42, pp. 30, 146, 147, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Phila.
City Directory, 1793.)
John Reegner (Reichner) (2), the eldest son of George
and Catharine Reichner, was born on his father's
plantation in Limerick Township, then Philadelphia
County, on August 27th, 1755,
(Vol. 725, p. 32, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Tombstone in
Cemetery at Falkner Swamp, Pa.)
and baptized at the Falkner Swamp Church, September
26th, 1755. Like his father he was a "3^eoman" or
farmer and owned land in what is now New Hanover
Township, Montgomery County.
(Norristown Deed Book 7, pp. 8-j, 276, and Deed
Books II, p. 65, and 22, p. 355.)
On April 9th, 1774, he was a witness at the baptism of
Abraham Lehman in St. Luke's Reformed Church at
Trappe, Pa.
(Vol. 726, p. 19, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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In 1776 he married Susana Betz.
(Tombstone inscriptions, Cemetery at Falkner
Swamp, Pa. Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 3, Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
On April 14th, 1777, Letters Testamentary were
granted to him upon his father's estate and he signed
the executors' account on March 25th, 1779, "John
Reegner."
(Will 22 of 1777, Phila. Reichner Papers, Vol. i,
p. 95, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
He was assessed upon the tax list of 1780, in Limerick
Township, Philadelphia County,
(Pa. Arch., 3rd Ser., Vol. XVI, p. 174.)
and in 1790 appears upon the list of Montgomery County.
(This County having been formed in 1784, taking in
Limerick Township from Philadelphia County.) At this
time there were eight persons in his family, himself, four
male minors under sixteen (/. e. his sons George, Joseph,
John and Conrad) and three females (his wife Susana
and daughters Mary and Susana).
From 1788 to 1798 his name with that of his wife
appear upon the records of the church at New Hanover
(Falkner Swamp).
(Vol. 72:^, pp. 140, 166, 169, 172, 187, Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
He was a contributor to the support of the church
from 1787 to 1 80 1,
(Vol. 725, pp. 526, 529, 532, 536, 539, 548, 551,
559, 563, 564, 570, 582, 584, 585, 587, 589,
593, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
and was clerk of the church in 1803.
(Vol. 725, p. 585, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
His name is spelled in these records Riegner, Richener,
Richner and Reegner.
During the Revolutionary War John Riegner was a
private in Captain Isaiah Davis' Eighth Company,
Fourth Battahon, Philadelphia County MiHtia.
(Pa. Arch., 6th Ser., Vol. i, p. 798.)
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Jeremiah Weiser, his brother-in-law (husband of Mar-
garet Riegner), and co-executor with John Riegner of
the will of his father, George Richner, was lieutenant of
this Eighth Company.
(Pa. Arch., 6th Ser., Vol. i, p. 765.)
John Bitting, another brother-in-law (husband of Eliza-
beth Riegner), was a private in this Fourth Battalion, com-
manded by his father, LieutenantColonel Anthony Bitting.
(Pa. Arch., 6th Ser., Vol. i, pp. 764, 776.)
The Fourth Battalion included all militia from Lim-
erick Township, Philadelphia County.
(Pa. Arch., 6th Ser., Vol. i, p. 770.)
John Reegner (Riegner, Reichner) and his wife vSusanna
had seven sons and three daughters :
George (3), born November 22nd, 1777, married
Catharine Moore, died January 30th, 1837.
(Reichner Bible Records, Reichner Papers, Vol.
I, pp. gi, 92, 93, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Mary, born 1779, married (i) Jacob Henry, (2) Henry
Christman, died April i, 1864.
(Release on Deed, Norristown, Pa., Deed Book
72, p. 322. Phila. Will Book R, p. 23.)
Susanna, born 1781.
Joseph, married Rosanna •
(Norristown, Pa., Deed Book 127, p. 351.)
John, married Susanna Klettener, died 1808.
(Vol. 220, p. 2212, Vol. 219, p. 1414, Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
Conrad, born March 12th, 1788, married Catharine
Schneider, died February 17th, 1847. He did service
in the War of 181 2, in the Montgomery Rifle Greens.
(Vol. 725, p. 140, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Tombstones
in Cemetery, Falkner Swamp, Pa. Pa. Arch.,
6th Ser., Vol. VHI, p. 555.)
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Samuel, born 1793, died before 1822.
(Vol. 725, p. 165, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Jacob, born March 3rd, 1795, married Maria Bickel,
died 1877.
(Vol. 725, p. 171, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Elizabeth, born June 4th, 1798,
(Vol. 725, p. 187, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
and another son whose name has not been found of
record and who died before his father's will in 1822.
John Reegner died on May 14th, 1832, and his wife
Susanna on August 26th, 1836. Their tombstones in
the churchyard at Falkner Swamp (New Hanover, Pa.),
bear the following inscriptions:
"Here lies in God the body of Johannes Riegner
son of Georg Riegner and his wife Catharina He
was born on the 27th of August 1755 and married
Susana who was born Betz. They had 10 children
7 sons and 3 daughters and he died on the 14th day
of May 1832 having lived to see 64 grandchildren
and 36 great grandchildren. He lived in the married
state 56 years and when he died was 76 years 8
months and 17 days old. His burial text was the
Epistle of John 3rd Chapter nth verse."
"Here lies Susana Riegner born Betz. She was
born the 5th of May 1755 and married with Johannes
Riegner and bore 7 sons and 3 daughters. She
lived to see 67 grandchildren and 30 great grand-
children and died on the 26th of August 1836 at
the age of 81 years 3 months and 21 days. Text —
Revelations 14th Chapter 7th verse."
(Tombstone Inscriptions, Falkner Swamp, pp.
386, 387 and Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 3.
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Altho' the name is spelled Riegner on the tombstones,
yet he signed his will "John Reegner" and appointed his
sons George, Conrad and Joseph "Riegner" as executors.
(Norristown, Pa., Will No. 5426. Reichner
Papers, Vol. i, pp. 2, 3, 98, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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His signatures "John Reegner" to his will and codicil
are the same as the signature of the "John Reegner"
who was executor of the will of his father, George Richner,
thus proving his identity.
(Reichner Papers, Vol. i, pp. 95, 98, Gen. Soc. of
Pa. Original Will and Account No. 22 of
1777 at Phila. and Original Will & Codicil
No. 5426 at Norristown, Pa.)
The executors of John Reegner's will filed their account
in 1834 (Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 5, Gen. Soc. of Pa.),
and upon selling their father's farm to George Romig
on April 4th, 1833, the three executors, all brothers,
sons of the same father, in making the deed signed their
names Joseph Riegncr, Conrad Ricgncr and George
Riechncr.
On the back of this deed is a release executed on
October loth, 1837, by Conrad and Joseph Riegner as
"surviving executors" of their father's will — George
Riechner having died January 30th, 1837.
(Reichner Bible Records, Reichner Papers, Vol.
I, p. 93, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
There is also a release by the children of Mary Hen-
ricks or Hendricks, who was Mary Riegner, mentioned in
her father, John Reegner's, will and codicil as having
married Jacob Henry.
(See photograph of original deed in Reichner
Papers, Vol. i, pp. 88, 89, Gen. Soc. of Pa., also
Norristown, Pa., Deed Book 72, pp. 320, 322.)
The farm of John Reegner, just referred to, is located
in New Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pa.,
about three-quarters of a mile west of the turnpike from
Fagleysville to New Hanover and 1I2 miles north of
Fagleysville on the line of Pottsgrove Township. It is
now (19 1 8) owned b\^ F. vS. Koons, having been recently
purchased by him from George O. Romig, the great-
grandson of George Romig who bought the farm in 1833.
(Will Books, 12, p. 162, 29, p. 626, 47, p. 481, at
Court House, Norristown, Pa.)
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George Reichner (3), eldest son of John Reegner
(Riegner), was born November 22nd, 1777, in Limerick
Township, Philadelphia County.
(Reichner Bible Records in Reichner Papers,
Vol. I, pp. 91, 92, 93, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
On February 26th, 1801, he married Catharine Moore,
daughter of Christopher Moore and Catharine Went-
tinger, at the First Reformed Church, Philadelphia
(See Moore Family).
(Vol. 220, p. 2208, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In the church record his name is spelled "Rechner"
and in the Reichner Family Bible the date of the marriage
is given as February 19th, 1801.
(Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 91, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
George Reichner was a farmer and owned a large tract
of ground situate at what is now (191 8) Moyamensing
Avenue between Porter and Ritner and Ninth and Tenth
Streets, Philadelphia.
(Phila. Directory, 181 1. Deed Books I. W. 8, p. 414,
I. W. 3, p. 392. Phila. Deed Books M. R. 12,
p. 76, G. W. R. 25, p. 359. Reichner Papers,
Vol. I, p. 14, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
During his lifetime he made several conveyances of
land in which he is recited as "George Reichner, " of the
District of Moyamensing — then a part of Southern
Philadelphia.
(Phila. Deed Books G. W. R. 9, p. 98 and G. S. 3$^
P- 585.)
His children were:
John, born December 23rd, 1801, married Ann Eliza-
beth . Died December 26th, 1878.
(Records of Union Burial Grounds, Phila., Sec. i,
No. 8.)
William, born November 14th, 1803, married (i) Mary
, (2) Catharine Frank. Died 1863.
(Vol. 219, p. 141 5, Vol. 229, p. 546, Gen. Soc. of
Pa. Union Burial Grounds, Phila.)
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George, born December 22nd, 1805, married (i) Mary
Ann Hutton, (2) Ann Bethia Smith. Died December 6th,
1S78.
(Vol. 219, p. 1507, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Elizabeth, born June 4th, 1S07, married Godfrey
Bender. Died April 25th, 1891.
Charles, born May 17th, 181 1, married Margaretta
Hazlett. Died December 23rd, 1871.
Mary Ann, born June nth, 1814, married Robert
Whartenby. Died May 22nd, 1891.
Lewis (4), born February 27th, 181 7, married (i)
Catharine Fraser, (2) Margaret Trymby. Died May i,
1S86.
(Vol. 220, p. 1862, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Sarah, born May 13th, 1819. Died 1820.
Samuel, born November 5th, 1821, married Marion H.
Cope. Died November 6th, 1901.
(For all of above birth dates see Bible Records in
Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 92, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
George Reichner died January 30th, 1837, and is buried
in the Union Burial Grounds, Sixth Street and Wash-
ington Avenue, Philadelphia.
(Section O, Lot 5. Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 84,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
His wife, Catherine, died October 25th, 1868.
(Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall.)
Lewis Reichner (4), son of George and Catherine
Reichner, was born on his father's farm on Moyamensing
Road, Philadelphia, on February 27th, 181 7.
(Records of First Reformed Church, Vol. 220, p.
1862, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Bible Records, Reichner
Papers, Vol. i, p. 92, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Tomb-
stone, Lafayette Cemetery, Phila.)
In 1844 he married Catherine Fraser, daughter of
James P. Fraser and Catherine Good. (See Fraser and
Good Families.) They had three children:
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Louis Reichner, Jr. (5), born December 23rd, 1845,
married Christiana Stephens, had issue, died March 25th,
1892.
Charles F. Reichner, married EHzabeth Wolfe, had
issue, died June 9th, 191 8.
Samuel Reichner.
Lewis Reichner shortly after his marriage removed to
Wilmington, Delaware. In 1854 he returned to Phila-
delphia and was a tea dealer at 66 Penn Street and later
at the Southwest corner of Twelfth and Locust Streets.
In 1870 he was in the real estate business at 3ii>^ Walnut
Street, and continued in that business until he retired
in 1878. His wife Catherine Fraser died April nth,
1858, and he later married Margaret Trymby of Phila-
delphia. There were no children by this last marriage.
Lewis Reichner died May ist, 1886, and he and his
wife Catherine are buried in Lafayette Cemetery, Phila-
delphia.
His eldest son, Louis, was administrater of his estate.
(Records of Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City
Hall. Section W. M. 17-18, Lafayette Cemetery.
Adm. Bk. Y., p. 400, Reg. of Wills, Phila.)
Louis Reichner, Jr. (5), eldest son of Lewis and
Catharine Reichner, was born December 23rd, 1845, in
Wilmington, Delaware. He was a graduate of the
Central High School in Philadelphia, and a member of
the First Presbyterian Church. He was married June
2ist, 1870, by Rev. Herrick Johnson, pastor of the church,
to Christiana Stephens, daughter of Jeffrey Clark
Stephens and Eliza Jane Henry. (See Stephens and
Henry Families.)
(Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall.)
Shortly after his marriage Louis Reichner, Jr., associ-
ated himself with his brother-in-law, George Griffiths, who
was a manufacturer of shovels at 51 1-5 13-5 15 Locust
Street and Eighth and Jackson Streets, Philadelphia.
In 1887 he became a partner and the firm was known as
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George Griffiths Company. He continued in this busi-
ness until his death in Philadelphia, March 25th, 1892.
(Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall.)
He was a man of the highest character, intellectually
brilliant, of exceptional business ability and devoted to
his family. His name together with that of his wife
appear on a tablet on the Old First Presbyterian Church,
Philadelphia. He was a member of the Franklin Institute
and the Amateur Photographic Association of Phila-
delphia.
After the death of her husband, Christiana Stephens
Reichner lived for several years at 2230 Spruce Street,
Philadelphia, until her marriage to William F. Garrett.
In 1909 she lived at Cynwyd, Pa., with her eldest son,
dying there January 20th, 1910. There were no children
by her second marriage. She was of bright and cheery
disposition and of great beauty and personal attraction — •
a devoted wife and mother. She lies by the side of her
husband, Louis Reichner, Jr., in the family lot in Laurel
Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia (Section 9, Lot 91).
Louis Reichner, Jr., and Christiana Stephens had three
children :
Louis Irving Reichner, born July 14th, 1871.
George Griffiths Reichner, born August 17th, 1877.
Frederic Fraser Reichner, born June 21st, 1879.
Louis Irving Reichner (6), the eldest son of Louis
Reichner, Jr., and Christiana Stephens, was born in
Philadelphia, July 14th, 187 1, and married Cephise H.
Aiken, daughter of William D. Aiken and Alice H.
Slawson, of Winnsboro, South Carolina (See Aiken and
Slawson Families), on June 17th, 1897, at St. Mary's P. E.
Church, Philadelphia.
They have two children :
Aiken Reichner (7), born in Philadelphia, June
4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (7), born in Cynwyd,
Pa., August 29th, 1905.
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George Griffiths Reichner, the second son of Louis
Reichner, Jr., and Christiana Stephens, was born in
Philadelphia, August 17th, 1877. He was educated at
Penn Charter School, where he graduated in 1893. After
a year spent in special study, as he was too young to
enter college, he matriculated at Princeton University,
and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in
1898. After graduation he was employed in the Chemical
Laboratory of Harrison Bros. & Co., Philadelphia, and
later was an official of the West Chester Railway Com-
pany. Leaving that Company to become affiliated with
the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia, he was
appointed Manager of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refinery,
then operated under the direction of officials of the Real
Estate Trust Company. This position he held until his
death May 2nd, 19 13. He was a member of the Princeton
and University Clubs of Philadelphia, Lodge No. 2,
Philadelphia Masons, and of the University Cottage
Club of Princeton. He was unmarried and lived with
his brother Louis from shortly after his graduation from
college until his death. He was a man of great popularity
and sterling worth. He is buried in the family lot at
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Frederic Fraser Reichner, youngest son of Louis
Reichner, Jr., and Christiana Stephens, was born in
Philadelphia, June 21st, 1879, and on June 20th, 1906,
married Elsie Van Houten Bell.
They have two sons, Frederic and Philip.
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STEPHENS FAMILY
OF
GLOUCESTER COUNTY
NEW JERSEY
STEPHENS DESCENT.
Isaac Stephexs.
born abroad circa 1707;
married in Chester Co., Pa., 3
Mar., 1736;
died near Paulsboro. N. J., Au-
gust, 1757.
=r Rachel Jones.
born in Chester Co., Pa., 25 Sep.,
1715;
died in Gloucester Co., N. J.
to 1757.
(See Jones Family, p. 70.)
prior
James
1
Stephens.
born near Paulsboro, N
■J.
, circa
1752
;
marriec
I at Swedesboro,
i\'.
I.,
24
Mar.
, 1779;
died near Paulsboro,
N.
1.
8
Feb.
1825.
: Sarah Reeves.
born in Gloucester Co., N. J., circa
1760;
died near Paulsboro, N. J., after
1828.
(See Reeves Family, p. 60.)
James Reeves Stephens.
bom near Paulsboro, N. J
Nov., 1788;
married at Woodburv, X. J., 27
Feb., 181 2;
died in Phila., Pa., 22 April,
1864.
13
^Christian Clark.
born near Clarksboro,
Dec, 1794;
died in Phila., Pa., 10 June
(See Clark Family, p. 54.)
N. J., iS
1S77;
4. Jeffrey Clark Stephens.
born near Paulsboro, N. J., 25
Nov., 1819;
married in Phila., Pa., 8 Jan.,
died near Perry ville, Aid., 2
Sep., 1862.
Note — The above Jeffrey C. Stephens was
in the Civil War in 1862. (Records of Adjutant General'
^. . _J
Eliza Jane Henry.
born in Phila., Pa., 26 June, 1826;
died in Phila., Pa., 16 Dec, 1899.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
private in Company K, 68th Pennsylvania Infantry
OfBce, War Department, Washington, D. C.)
Del.
Louis Reichner, Jr.
bom in Wilmington,
Dec, i-§47;/^>f^
married in Phila., Pa.
1870;
died in Phila., Pa., 25 Mar., 1892
See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
21 June,
Christiana Stephens.
born in Phila., Pa., 28 Aug., 1847;
died in Cynwyd, Pa., 20 Jan., 19 10.
Louis Irving Reichner.
born in Phila., Pa., 14 July, 187 1 ;
married in Phila., Pa., 17 June,
1897-
C,
Cephise H. Aiken.
born in Winnsboro, S
1877;
(See Aiken Family, p. 145
Feb.
Aiken Reichner. born in Phila., Pa., 4 June, 1900;
Morgan Stephens Reicpner. born in Cynwyd, Pa., 29 Aug., 1905.
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AUTHORITIES FOR STEPHENS DESCENT.
1. Isaac and Rachel J. Stephens.
Men's Minutes, Haddonfield (N. J ) Monthly Meeting.
Reichner Papers, Vol. i, pp. 17, 18, at Genealogical Society of
Penna.
Chester County Monthly Meeting Records, pp. 370, 380, at Gen.
Soc. of Pa.
Will Book 8, p. 439, Trenton, N. J.
N. J. Archives, ist Series, Vol. XX, p. 183, Vol. XXIV, p. 79.
2. James and Sarah R. Stephens.
Vol. I, Original Record Swedesboro (N. J.) Lutheran Church, years
1715 to 1785, in safe at Historical Society of Penna.
Reichner Papers, Vol. i, pp. 17, 24, 25, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.
Deed Books A. A., pp. 260, 261, 360; E., p. 371; W. W., p. 185, and
Will Book B., p. 355, at County Clerk's Office, Woodbury, N. J.
3. James Reeves and Christian C. Stephens.
Stephens Family Bible Records, Reichner Papers, Vol. i, pp. 20,
21, 96, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.
"Record of Marriages," p. 208, and Deed Books R. 3, p. 203;
S. 3, p. loi; W. 3, p. 408, at County Clerk's Office, Woodburv,
N.J.
Will No. 229 of 1864, Will Book 53, p. 24, and Will No. 485 of 1877.
Will Book 90, p. 89, Register of Wills Office, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall (Vol., Deaths of 1864,
p. 141, and Vol. i. Deaths, p. 195).
4. Jeffrey Clark and Eliza J. H. Stephens.
Stephens Family Bible Records, Reichner Papers, V^ol. i, pp. 28,
29, 35, 96, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.
Records of Ebenezer M. E. Church, Phila.
Will Book 90, p. 89, Reg. of Wills Office, Phila.
Records of Adjutant General's Office (A. G., 201, Ord.) War Dept.,
Washington, D. C.
Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall (Vol., Deaths of 1862,
p. 185, and Vol. 2, Deaths, p. 11529).
Records of Laurel Hill Cemetery (Sect. 18, Lot 75), Phila.
5. Louis and Christiana S. Reichner.
Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall (Marriages of 1S70,
p. 95, and Vol. i, Deaths, No. 21506).
Will No. 583 of 1892 and Will No. 746 of 19 10, Reg. of Wills Office,
Phila.
Records of Laurel Hill Cemetery (Sect. 9, Lot 91), Phila.
6. Louis Irving and Cephise A. Reichner.
Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall (Vol. 2, Births, p. 397,
Vol. I, ISlarriages, p. 44)-.
Aiken Family Records.
7. Aiken Reichner.
Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall (Vol. i, Births, p. 352}.
Baptismal Records, Trinity Church, Princeton, N. J.
Morgan Stephens Reichner.
Record of Births, Court House, Norristown, Pa. Baptismal
Records Trinity Church, Princeton, N. J.
Note. — The collection of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania above referred
to is at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
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STEPHENS FAMILY
Isaac Stephens (i) came to Newton, Gloucester County,
New Jersey, from Lambstown, Wexford County, Leinster
Province, Ireland, in 1728.
He was a member of the vSociety of Friends in Ireland,
and, like most of the Irish Quakers, w^as probably of
English descent dating back to the Cromwellian Settle-
ment of Ireland.
The Quakers in Ireland took a firm stand against tithes
and other ecclesiastical dues, and the priests were con-
tinually stirring up the magistrates and rabble against
them, so that many were fined or imprisoned up until
1750. Then too, the landlords became oppressive and
crop failures were frequent, so that for these reasons
large numbers of the Irish Quakers emigrated to the
New World.
Isaac Stephens probably embarked from Dublin and after
what was at that time a long and trying voyage, varying
from six weeks to three months, landed in Philadelphia.
It was the custom among the Quakers in preparing to
emigrate to give at least a month's notice to the Meeting,
requesting a "certificate of removal" certifying to their
membership in the Society. If after due inquiry by a
committee the applicant was found to be in good stand-
ing in the neighborhood and in his Meeting, the docu-
ment was drawn up and signed by members of Meeting
in due time for his day of departure.
(Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Penna., by
Albert Cook Myers, pp. 32, 42 to 49, 84, 89, 92.)
After landing in Philadelphia Isaac Stephens settled
across the river, in Newton, Gloucester County, N. J.,
where he presented his certificate from the Collydine
Meeting, County Wexford, Ireland, certifying the
"Friends' satisfaction with him" to the Haddonfield
(N. J.) Meeting, which was under the jurisdiction of the
Philadelphia Meeting at that time. This certificate was
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dated Tenth Month 9th, 1728. According to the "old
style" calendar in use prior to 1752 this date would be
December 9th, 1728.
(For explanation of "old style" calendar, see
Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 34, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
He was then unmarried, and took up farming in
Newton, which was near Gloucester, N. J. His brothers
Henry, James, John and Samuel, and sisters Sarah and
Elizabeth were also resident near Newton and attended
the Haddonfield Meeting. In August, 1732, Isaac
Stephens applied to the Haddonfield Meeting for a cer-
tificate "to recommend him to Friends at Ireland and
elsewhere." The following month this request was
granted but the voyage was evidently postponed, for in
February following Isaac Stephens applied again to the
Meeting and the certificate was granted in March, 1733.
He spent two years in Ireland, returning in 1735 to the
Haddonfield Meeting with a certificate from the Meeting
at Lambstown, Ireland, signifying his "clearness on
account of marriage and his orderly conversation."
(Men's Minutes, Haddonfield Monthly IMeeting.
Reichner Papers, Vol. i. p. 17, at Genealogical
Society of Pa.)
Robert Stephens, his brother, accompanied him from
Ireland, but there is no record of the arrival in America
of their parents.
Of the brothers and sisters of Isaac Stephens,
Henry married, had issue, and died in 1763.
(Will Book II, p. 477, Secretary of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
Robert in 1735 had a farm of 212 acres on the Delaware
River, near Newton Creek, married (i) Ann Dent in
1739. (2) then Mary , and died in 1759.
(Deed Book B, p. S3, Woodbury, N. J. N. J. Arch.,
ist Ser., Vol. XVIII, p. 235, Vol. XX, p. 353.
Haddonfield Meeting Records, Vol. 102 1, p. 176,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa. Will Book 9, p. 234.
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
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Sarah married Thomas Edgerton, Jr., in 1733.
(Haddonfield Meeting Records, Vol. 1021, p. 171,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
James removed from Newton to Philadelphia in 1740,
and then married Mary Widdifield in the Orange and
Pine Streets Meeting, had issue and died in 1790.
(Will Book U, p. 486, Reg. of Wills Office, Phila.
Haddonfield Meeting Records. Phila. Monthly
Meeting Records, pp. 158, 311. Phila. City
Directory, 1785, at Hist. Soc. of Pa.)
Isaac Stephens immediately upon his return from
Ireland applied to Meeting and received a certificate
for marriage "with a young woman living within the
verge of the Monthly Meeting held at Londongrove or
New Garden," and in February, 1735, the certificate was
"produced in order for marriage in Chester County" (Pa.)
(Haddonfield Meeting Records, 1735. Reichner
Papers, Vol. i, p. 17, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
On March 3rd, 1736 (old style calendar), he was m.ar-
ried at the Leacock Meeting, near present town of Enter
prise, formerly Bird-in-Hand, Chester County, Pa., to
Rachel Jones, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Jones.
(See Jones Family, p. 70.)
(Chester County Monthly Meeting Records, p.
370, and Reichner Papers, \^ol. i, p. 108, both
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
A wedding among the Quakers was a great event. The
first and important preliminary to the marriage was "to
pass Meeting" or obtain the consent of the Monthly
Meeting. The contracting parties appeared in two
Monthly Meetings and declared their intentions. Then
after a searching inquiry by a committee, if the
couple were found to be "clear of all entanglements"
they were left at liberty to accomplish their marriage
according to "ye good order" of Friends. They would
then appear in Meeting and before the assembly the
groom, taking the bride by the hand, would declare: "I
take this my friend Rachel Jones to be my wife Promis-
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ing with ye Lord's assistance. To be Unto her a Loving &
faithfull husband Until death Separate Us." The bride
would then make a like declaration and both would sub-
scribe their names to the certificate and the members of
the Meeting would sign and attest the same as wit-
nesses.
(Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Penna.,
by Albert Cook Myers, p. 209.)
Although Isaac Stephens had left Ireland in 1 72S, when
he desired to marry Rachel Jones, who had lived in
Chester County, Pa., since her birth in 1715, he had to
return to Lambstown, Ireland, and obtain a certificate
from the Meeting showing his "clearness on account of
marriage" in that place. Such was the orderly and
exact procedure attendant upon these marriages among
the Quakers.
After his marriage in Chester County. Isaac Stephens
returned to Newton, and in 1739-1740 was appointed an
Overseer of Roads in Gloucester County.
(Cushing & Shephard's History of Gloucester Co.,
p. 189.)
He was executor of the will of Philip Doyle in 174S,
and administrator of the estate of Robert Doyle in 1757,
both residents of Gloucester County, X. J.
(N. J. Arch., ist Sen, Vol. XVIIL p. 443. Glou-
cester File 1757-8, Secretarv of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
These Doyles were no doubt sons of Peter and Mary
Doyle of Collydine, Wexford County, Ireland, the dis-
trict Isaac Stephens emigrated from, and may have been
relatives of his father or mother.
(Notices of Friends in Ireland, by ]\Iary Lead-
beater, p. 263.)
On March 29th, 1743, Isaac Stephens purchased a farm
in Greenwich Township from Samuel Driver, and in
1753 acquired Richard West's ground.
(Deed Book Q, pp. 57, 60, 72, at Trenton, N. J.)
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On June i6, 1741, Thomas Spicer sold him 710 acres
on Mantua and Edwards Creeks (Deed Book Q, pp. 77.
87, Trenton, N. J.), and in 1754, John Rambo and
Thomas Denny, Executors of Peter Rambo, conveyed to
Isaac Stephens 334 acres along Little Mantas Creek and
a branch thereof. This plantation originally was sold
by Edward Byllynge to Thomas Bull in 1677, and con-
veyed after Bull's death by Jonas Cox, his son-in-law, to
Andrew Rambo.
(Deed Book B., pp. 285, 307, at Woodbury, N. J.;
Z., p. 115, at Trenton, N. J.)
This farm lay between Great and Little Mantoes
(Mantua) Creeks and extended between the branches of
Little Mantua Creek, touching on the Crown Point Road
between Paulsboro and Thorofare. It remained in the
Stephens family until 1840, although portions of the
original 334 acres were sold at various times to the
Packer and Cooper families, who owned farms adjoining.
(Deed Books S. 3, p. loi; W. p. 26; R. 3, p. 203;
W. W. p. 185; A. A. 260, 261, at County Clerk's
Office, Woodbury, N. J.)
The farm contained the "Stephens Family Burying
Ground" referred to in the deeds and wills of Isaac
Stephens' sons.
(Deed Book E., p. 371, Will Book B., p. 555, at
Court House, Woodbury, N. J.)
This burial place is on the portion of the original
Stephens farm now (1918) owned by R. H. Davis, and
lies a short distance east of Crown Point Road about one
mile north of Paulsboro. Here are buried many of the
Stephens family and their relatives.
(Notes on Old Gloucester County by Frank H.
Stewart, p. 273.)
A tombstone in this cemetery lettered I. S. no doubt
marks the grave of Isaac Stephens who died in 1757, his
wife Rachel having predeceased him between 1751 and
1757-
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Isaac Stephens was a prosperous farmer at the time
of his death, and in his will dated July 25th, 1757, and
proved August loth, 1757, gave his property to his
three sons, John, Isaac and James.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXIV, p. 79; Vol. XX,
p. 183; Will 360 H. Will Book 8, p. 439,
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
Of these sons,
John married Juliana Sparks, had issue, and died in
1805.
(Deed Book E., p. 371, and Will Book A., p. 67,
Woodbury, N. J.)
Isaac married vSarah Woolston in 1772, had issue, and
died in 1807. He was Town Clerk and Assessor in
Gloucester County between 1775 and 1780.
(Cushing and Shephard's History of Gloucester
Co., p. 190. Deed Books Q., pp. 274, 460;
A. A., pp. 261, 360; W., p. 26, at Court House,
Woodbury, N. J. Woodbury Meeting Records,
Vol. 1022, p. 37, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
James married Sarah Reeves in 1779, had issue, and
died in 1825.
There were also two daughters of Isaac Stephens.
Sarah, who married John Saunders and had issue,
(Will Book II, p. 477, Secretary of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
and Rachel, who was born December 6th, 1751, and
married Thomas Saunders; died August 3d, 1822.
(Will Book II, p. 477, Secretary of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J. Woodbury Meeting Records,
Vol. 1022, p. 31, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
James Stephens (2), son of Isaac and Rachel Stephens
was born about 1749 (he was not of age in 1763 accord-
ing to the will of his Uncle Henry, Will Book 11, p. 477,
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.) and lived on
his father's plantation in the fork of Little Mantua Creek,
near Paulsboro, N. J.
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He was a farmer and a Quaker, and attended the
Haddonfield Meeting until his marriage on March 24th,
1779, at the Swedish Lutheran (now Trinity P. E.)
Church at Swedesboro, N. J., to Sarah Reeves, daughter
of Arthur Reeves and Mary Cox, both of Gloucester
County. N. J. (See Reeves and Cox Families, pp. 60, 75.)
("Records of the Church at Swedesborough on
Racoon From 17 15 to 1785, Vol. i." Original
book now (1918) in safe at Historical Society
of Pa.)
As has been said, the Quakers required great formality
in the matter of marriage and many of the Young Friends,
impatient of the slow and troublesome process of "pass-
ing Meeting," hastened off to a minister or magistrate
to be married without delay. The Mgnthly Meeting
minutes abound in the record of such infractions of disci-
pline and the elders of the meeting were ever busy labor-
ing and dealing with the delinquents. For two young
Quakers to be married by a minister or priest was con-
sidered a grave fault, but when a Quaker not only did
this but took for his bride a girl "outside the Meeting"
i. e., not a Friend, then he might indeed expect severe
discipline. Such offenders were usually "disowned" by
the Society or "read out of Meeting."
(Immigration of Irish Quakers to Penna., p. 212.)
Accordingly we find the following in the Men's Minutes
^ of the Haddonfield Monthly Meeting.
II mo. 1779 Report of James Stephens' marriage out
of Meeting.
II mo. 1780, Testimony produced against him.
5 mo. 1780, Report that testimony was read.
(Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 17, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
James Stephens between 1779 and 1802 purchased
from his brothers Isaac and John a portion of their
interests (109 acres) in the real estate of their father,
Isaac, being ground situate "next to land of Tench
Francis."
(Deed Books A. A., p. 260, 261, 360; E., p. 371,
at Court House, Woodbury, N. J.)
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After the death of Arthur Reeves in 1786 his widow
Mary Reeves came to Hve with James Stephens and his
wife, Sarah Reeves, her daughter. There she Hved until
her death in 1822.
(Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 24, 25, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
In March, 181 5, James Stephens sold 15 acres of his
plantation to John Cooper. In the deed the adjoining
properties of John Stephens, John Packer and Hugh Cox
are mentioned.
(Deed Book W., p. 26, at Court House, Wood-
bury, N. J.)
James vStephens died February 8th, 1825, and was
buried in the Stephens Burial Ground on his farm at
Little Mantua Creek. In his will dated January nth,
1825, and proved February 22nd, 1825, he recites himself
of Deptford Township, Gloucester County, and directs
the disposal of a farm on Matthews Branch which he
purchased of Davis Daniels. He gives his wife a life
estate in his property and directs at her death his estate
shall be equally divided between his two sons, Israel and
James. If Israel died without issue, his share to be
divided between James and Rachel Medara, wife of
Jacob Medara, daughter of the testator. Forty dollars
is provided "toward building a brick wall or other fence
around the family burying ground, commonly called
Stephens Family Burying Ground."
(Will No. 3664 H., Secretary of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J. Will Book B., p. 555, at
Surrogate's Office, Woodbury, N. J.)
James Stephens left surviving him his widow, Sarah,
who died subsequent to 1828,
(Deed Book W. W., p. 185, at County Clerk's
Office, Woodbury, N. J.)
two sons, Israel and James, and a daughter, Rachel.
Israel died in 1833 unmarried.
(Deed Book R. 3, p. 203, Woodbury, N. J.)
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Rachel married Jacob Medara, had issue, and died in
1836.
(Will Book C, p. 702, at Surrogate's Office,
Woodbury, N. J.)
James married Christian Clark, had issue, and died
in 1864.
James Stephens (3) (or James Reeves Stephens, as he
afterward called himself) was born on his father's farm
at Little Mantua Creek on November 13th, 1788.
(Stephens Family Bible Records, Reichner Papers,
Vol. I, p. 20, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
He was a farmer and lived until 1830 upon the Stephens
farm.
On February 27th, 181 2, he was married at Woodbury,
N. J., by "Squire" James Matlack to Christian Clark,
daughter of Jeffrey Clark, Jr., and Rachel Weatherby,
both of Gloucester County. (See Clark and Weatherby
Families, pp. 54, 66.)
("Record of Marriages," p. 208, County Clerk's
Office, Woodbury, N. J. Reichner Papers, Vol.
I, p. 51, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
They had the following children :
Christiana Clark, born December 5th, 18 12, married
William Walker, 1837.
Israel Stephens, Jr., born 18 16, died 1822.
Jeffrey Clark, born 1819, married Eliza J. Henry, 1845,
had issue, and died 1862.
Mary Clark, born 182 1, miarried Bradford.
James, born 1825, died 1825.
Sarah, born 1826, married Perry.
Anna Maria, born 1828, married Rufus Clark.
James Weatherby, born 1830, died 1830.
Mark Reeves, born 1833.
(Stephens Family Bible Records, Reichner Papers,
Vol. I, pp. 20, 21, 30, 96. Will Book go, p. 89,
Reg. of Wills Office, Phila., Pa.)
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About 1830 James Reeves Stephens gave up farming
and moved to Philadelphia, where he became a merchant
and lived first at 232 South Fifth Street; later he moved
to 63 Cedar Street (now South).
On March 20th, 1837, he sold a portion of his father's
farm at Little Mantua Creek,
(Deed Book R. 3, p. 203, Woodbury, N. J.)
and on May 8th, 1837, he sold another part to John
Packer. In these deeds he and his wife Christiana are
recited as of Philadelphia, and the chain of title is given
from Isaac vStephens, showing the various devises by wills,
and the deaths of father, brother, and sister.
(Deed Book S. 3, p. 10 1, at County Clerk's Office,
Woodbury, N. J.)
On March 25th, 1840, James and Christiana Stephens
sold to Thomas Piatt i>4 acres on Little Mantua Creek
near Joseph Stephens' land, along William Cooper's
line and by the heirs of Anne Tatum's land, "being the
balance of James Stephens' interest in the tract of 334
acres conveyed by Rambo to Isaac Stephens."
(Deed Book W. 3, p. 408, at County Clerk's
Office, Woodbury, N. J.)
James Reeves Stephens with his wife were regular
attendants at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church on
Catherine Street near Eighth Street, Philadelphia. He is
described in family tradition as a quiet, dignified gentle-
man who until the time of his death still adhered to the
staright brim beaver hat of his Quaker ancestry. He
died April 22nd, 1864, aged 86 years, and is interred in
the churchyard of St. Paul's M. E. Church, Philadelphia.
(Will No. 229 of 1864, Will Book 53, p. 24, Reg. of
Wills Office, Phila., Pa.)
His wife survived him thirteen years, dying on June
loth, 1877.
(Will 485 of 1877, Will Book 90, p. 89, Reg. of
Wills Office, Phila., Pa. Bureau of Vital
Statistics, Vol. i, p. 195, Phila. City Hall.j
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Originally christened "Christian" after her grand-
mother, Christian Vanneman Clark, she feminized the
name and called herself "Christiana." She was pos-
sessed of property in Philadelphia, which she disposed
of by her will. She is buried by the side of her husband
in the churchyard of St. Paul's M. E. Church, Phila-
delphia.
Jeffrey Clark Stephens (4), son of James Reeves
Stephens, and named after his mother's father, Jeffrey
Clark, Jr., was born on his father's farm at Little Mantua
Creek, near Paulsboro, N. J., on November 25th, 1819.
(Stephens' Bible Records, Reichner Papers, Vol. i,
pp. 29, 96. at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
He lived with his parents both in Gloucester County,
N. J., and later in Philadelphia, until his marriage on
January 8th, 1845, at Ebenezer M. E. Church (then at
Third and Christian Streets, Philadelphia), to Eliza
Jane Henry, daughter of William Henry and Maria
Elizabeth York. (See Henry family, p. 39.)
(Stephens Bible Records, Records of Ebenezer M.
E. Church. Reichner Papers, Vol. i, pp. 20, 28,
29, 96, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
He was a builder, and in 1848 had his shop on Fifth
below Federal Street, Philadelphia.
His children, all born in Philadelphia, were:
Maria Elizabeth, born November i8th, 1845, married
George Griffiths, died 1907; no issue.
Christiana, born August 28th, 1847, married Louis
Reichner, Jr., died 19 10, had issue.
Sarah, born December 27th, 1850, died October 30th,
1851.
James Reeves, born September i6th, 1852, died un-
married while in the U. S. Army service about 1888.
Eliza Jane, born May 31st, 1857, died in infancy.
(Stephens Bible Records, Reichner Papers, Vol. i,
p. 29, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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At the time of the Civil War Jeffrey C. vStephens, then
43 years old, enlisted in Company K, 6Sth Penna.
Infantry.
(Records of Adjutant General's Office, War De-
partment, Washington, D. C; A. G. 201, Ord.)
He was on his way to the front with his company when,
by a train accident, he was killed near Perryville, Md.,
on September 2nd, 1862. He is interred in the vStephens
Lot (Sect. 18, Lot 75), Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.
(Reichner Papers, Vol. i, p. 35, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa. Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City
Hall, Deaths of 1S62, p. 1S5. Tombstone in
Stephens Lot, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila.)
His wife survived him many years, making her home
with her eldest daughter, Maria, first at 518 Spruce Street,
and later at 2102 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, where she
died December i6th, 1899, aged 73 years.'
(Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall,
Vol. 2, p. 1 1 529. Tombstone in Stephens Lot,
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila.)
Eliza J. Stephens was a woman of the finest character
and of cheery, unselfish disposition, most beloved by
all. She lies by the side of her husband and her mother,
Maria York Henry, in the Stephens Lot, South Laurel
Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Christiana Stephens (5) (named for her grandmother
Christiana Clark Stephens), daughter of Jeffrey C. and
Eliza J. Stephens, was born in Philadelphia August 28th,
1847, and was married on June 21st, 1870, by Rev.
Herrick Johnson. Pastor of First Presbyterian Church,
Philadelphia, to Louis Reichner, Jr. (vSee Reichner
Family, p. 14.) They had three children:
Louis Irving Reichner (6), born July 14th, 1871,
married Cephise H. Aiken June 17th, 1897, had issue.
George Griffiths Reichner, born August 17th, 1877,
died May 2nd, 1913, unmarried.
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Frederic Fraser Reichncr, born June 21st, 1879, mar-
ried Elsie Van Houten Bell, June 20th, 1906, had issue.
After the death of her husband on March 25th, 1892,
Christiana Stephens Reichner married William F. Gar-
rett, of Philadelphia, and died at Cynwyd, Pa., January
20th, 1910.
There Vv-ere no children by this second marriage.
Louis Irving Reichner (6) and Cephise H. Aiken have
two sons:
x\iKEN Reichner (7), born June 4th, 1900; and
Morgan Stephens Reichner (7), born August 29th,
1905.
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FRASER FAMILY
OF
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
FRASER FAMILY
James Fraser (i) (Frazier), an immigrant from Scot-
land, was born about 1749. He was a sawyer, and as
he frequently took lumber by boat down the Delaware
River, was also called a "mariner." He lived on Christian
Street near Delaware Avenue. He died August 27th,
1800, and was buried at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church,
Philadelphia, where three of his infant children are also
buried.
(Old Swedes Burial Records, Vol. 141, pp. 157, 50,
58, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In the return of the Sixth Battalion, Philadelphia
County Militia, in July, 1777, he is reported "at Sea."
(Pa. Arch., 6th Ser., Vol. i, p. 417.)
On September 4th, 1782, Archibald Frazer, sawyer, and
Sarah, his wife, conveyed to James Frazer, of Southwark,
"sawer," a tract on Water Street near the Delaware
River. This tract Julia (daughter of Matthias Miller),
widow of James Frazier, conveyed on October i8th,
1809, to John Pierce.
(Phila. Deed Books, D. 37, p. 352; I. C. 26,
p. 200.)
His son, James Frazier (2) (afterward known as
James P. Fraser), was born in 1780 and died September
17th, 1850.
(Gravestone, Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Phila.)
In 1800 he lived on "Christian Street below Second"
and was a "sawer."
On December 31st, 1807, at St. John's Lutheran
Church, Philadelphia, he married Catherine Good,
daughter of John Good and Christina Howtzell. (See
Good and Howtzell Families, p. 46.)
(Vol. 229, p. 469, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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In 1809 his name appears in the City Directory as
"James Frazier, turner," on Zane Street, and in 18 10- 11
he Hved at 64 North Eighth Street.
In 1814 he Hved at 373 Arch Street, and on June nth
of that year joined with the heirs of his wife's grand-
father, Christian Howtzell, in conveying the house on
Zane Street (also called Sugar Alley), between High (now
Market) Street and Mulberry (now Arch Street) to
Philip Eisenbrey. This property was on Filbert Street
between Seventh and Eighth.
(Phila. Deed Book, I. C, 31, p. 142.)
In 1818-1819 he still resided at 373 Arch Street and
had taken a middle name, "Porter," being known as
James P. Frazier (Eraser).
In 1820 he moved his place of business to Prospect or
Prosperous Alley (this street ran east from 27 North
Tenth), where he became an umbrella manufacturer.
He continued in this business until 1834, when, at the
same address, he engaged in the stone cutting business.
In 1847 he went to live with his son, Frederick Good
Eraser at 415 High (Market) Street, where he died in
1850. This house was owned by Frederick G. Eraser,
who was an upholsterer and is now (1918) known as 1109
Market Street.
On August 15th, 1814, James P. Eraser was a private
in the Militia commanded by Captain Florence Cotter,
organized by Daniel Sharp, Brigade Inspector of the
First Brigade, First Division, Pennsylvania Militia.
(Pa. Arch., 6th Ser., Vol. VIII, p. 346.)
James P. Erazer had the following children:
Charles Good Eraser, born October 5th, 1808, married
, had issue.
(Vol. 229, p. 49, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Frederick Good Eraser, born October 13th, 18 13, died
unmarried November 4th, 1896.
(Phila. Will Book, 189, p. 419.)
Anne Eraser, married Lesher, had issue.
Maria Eraser, married Merkins, had issue.
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James Porter Fraser, Jr., married Caroline Shafer in
1833-
(Vol. 206, p. 72, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Rebecca Fraser, married Reckford, had issue.
Volney Fraser, married , had issue.
Theodore Fraser,
John Fraser, and
Catherine Fraser (3), who married Lewis Reichner,
had issue.
Catherine Good, wife of James P. Fraser, died January
30th, 1865, aged 78 years.
(Gravestone, Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Phila. Bureau
of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall.)
Catherine Fraser (3) married Lewis Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 13.)
Their son, Louis Reichner, Jr., (4), married Christiana
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 31.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (5), married Cephisc
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (6), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (6), born August 29th, 1905
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YORK AND HENRY FAMILIES
OF
NEW JERSEY
YORK FAMILY
William York (i) lived in Cape May County, N. J.,
and about 1803 married Eliza Jane Ludlam, daughter of
Jeremiah Ludlam.
Their daughter Maria Elizabeth York (2) was born
near Cold Spring, Cape May County, on March 28th,
i:
In 1825 Maria Elizabeth York (2) married Captain
William Henry (see Henry Family, p. 39) and died
April 27th, 1 88 1, in Philadelphia.
(Gravestone in Stephens Lot, Laurel Hill Cemetery,
Phila.)
Their daughter, Eliza Jane Henry (3), married Jeffrey
Clark vStephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 30).
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (4) , married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (5), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (6), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (6), born August 29th,
1905.
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HENRY FAMILY
William Henry (i) was born in Liverpool, England,
and came to America in his youth. In 1825 he married
Maria Elizabeth York of Cape May County, N. J.
(See York Family, p. 38).
He was a sea captain, and died and was buried at sea,
while on a voyage to England in 1828.
(Gravestone Stephens Lot, Laurel Hill Cemetery,
Phila.)
He had one child :
Eliza Jane.
Eliza Jane Henry (2) was born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
June 26th, 1826. On January 8th, 1845, she married, at
Ebenezer M. E. Church, Philadelphia, Jeffrey Clark
Stephens (see Stephens Family, p. 30) and died Dec-
ember 1 6th, 1899, in Philadelphia.
(Gravestone, Stephens Lot, Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (3), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.) '
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (4), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (5), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (5), born August 29th,
1905-
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MOORE AND HOWTZELL
FAMILIES
OF
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, PENNA.
MOORE FAMILY
Jolin Moore (i), arrived from Rotterdam on the ship
"Friendship" November 2nd, 1744, and settled in Marl-
borough Township, then in Philadelphia County, Pa.
Of his children,
George was born August 27th, 1757, married March
9th, 1784, Barbara Longbine, and had issue, Catharine
and George.
(Gen. Soc. of Pa., Vol. 213, p. 340, Vol. 725, pp.
124, 283, 411, 154.)
Christopher was born about 1755, married Catharine
Wenttinger, had issue, died 1877.
Christopher Moore (2), son of John and Catharine
Moore, was born about 1755, in Philadelphia County.
On July 14th, 1778, he married Catharine Wenttinger
in Old Swedes (Gloria Dei) Church, Philadelphia.
(Penna. Arch., 2nd Series, Vol. VIII, p. 464.)
His name appears upon the Return of the Fourth
Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, in the Revolutionary War.
(Penna. Arch, ,6th Series, Vol. I, p. 287 ; Vol. Ill, p. 1 15 1 .)
On June 24th, 1786, Christopher Moore purchased for
400 pounds Sterling from William Jones a farm in Phila-
delphia on Moyamensing Road between Ninth and
Tenth Streets and below Ritner Street, next to that of
George Reichner. Christopher Moore was taxed in Phil-
adelphia County in 1779, 1780, 1782 and 1783.
(R. P., Vol. I, p. 14. Vol. 2552 at Gen. Soc. of Pa.
Phila. Deed Book D. 16, p. 492. Pa. Arch., 3rd
Series, Vol. XIV, p. 639; Vol. XV, pp. 79, 448;
Vol. XVI, pp. 133, 605.)
Christopher Moore died upon this farm in June, 1787,
intestate, leaving his wife Catherine and four children
him surviving.
(Phila. Administration No. 50 of 1787, Book I, p. 191.)
His widow afterward married Martin Wieland, and
died February 27th, 1826.
(Phila. Administration Book N., p. 85.)
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Captain Lewis Farmer was appointed guardian of the
minor children of Christopher Moore, who were :
Catherine (3), born January 3rd, 1781, married
George Reichner.
William, born 1783, died 1841, unmarried.
(Phila. Will Book 14, p. 451. Deed Book G. S. 35,
p. 585. R. P. Vol. I, p. 12. Vol. 2552 at Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
George, born 1785, mairied Barbara Hoffman in 1807,
had issue.
(Gen. Soc. of Pa., Vol. 229, pp. 466, 181, 28, 208.)
Margaret, born 1787.
(Phila. Deed Books A. M. 2, p. 605. G. S. 35, p.
585. G. W. R. 9, p. 98. Orphan's Court Docket
No. 15, p. 336, and No. 16, pp. 46-58. Mortgage
Book M. 8, p. 240.)
Catharine Moore (3), eldest child of Christopher and
Catherine Moore was born in Philadelphia County
January 3rd, 1781,
(Bible Records Reichner Papers Vol. I , pp. 9 1 , 92, 93 .)
and on February 26th, 1801, married George Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 12.)
She died October 25th, 1868.
(Bureau of Vital Statistics, Phila. City Hall.)
Their son, Lewis Reichner (4) (named after Captain
Lewis Farmer), married Catharine Fraser.
(See Fraser Family, p. 36.)
Their son, Louis Reichner, Jr., (5), married Christiana
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 31.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (6), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (7) and
Morgan Stephens Reichner (7).
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HOWTZELL FAMILY
Christian Howtzell (i), was born in 17 14, probably
abroad. He was a weaver by trade, and lived in Phila-
delphia. In 1770 he purchased at Sheriff's Sale a house
on Zane Street.
(Phila. Deed Book I. C. 31, p. 126. Pa. Arch., 3rd
Ser., Vol. XIV, pp. 296, 555.)
This property is now (19 18) No. 727 Filbert Street,
Philadelphia.
(Survey in Vol. 2552, p. 83, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In 1777 Christian Howtzell was a private in Captain
George Esterly's Third Company, Philadelphia Militia.
He saw service and was paid off October 12th, 1779.
(Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. I, pp. 27, 215, 718.)
He died November 3rd, 1779, his wife, Anna Elizabeth,
having died August 23rd, 1779.
(Gen. Soc. of Pa. Vol. 220, pp. 2531, 2532. Phila.
Will Book R., p. 241.)
They had the following children:
Catharine, married John Asmus.
Ann, married James Hunt.
George, died unmarried.
Jacob, died leaving issue, a son Jacob.
Magdalena, married Peter Nonnater.
William, died of yellow fever, September i8th, 1793,
unmarried.
(Phila. Adm. Book I, p. 316. Gen. Soc. of Pa., Vol.
220, p. 2832.)
Christian, born about 1759, confirmed in 1775, married
Margaret . Was a Private in Sixth Company,
Fourth Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, in 1787. Died
November nth, 1793, of yellow fever, leaving his wife
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and three children, Catherine, Samuel and Elizabeth,
surviving.
(Gen. Soc. of Pa., Vol. 219, pp. 1063, 1210, 2701;
Vol. 220, p. 2629. Phila. City Directories, 1791,
1794. Phila. Admstn. Book I, p. 338. Or-
phans' Court Dockets 18, p. 231; 20, p. 152.
Deed Book I. C. 31, p. 153.)
Christina (2), born January nth, 1765, married
John Good.
(Gen. Soc. of Pa., Vol. 218, p. 211; Vol. 220, p.
2937-)
Christina (2), daughter of Christian and Anna Howt-
zell, was born in Philadelphia, January nth, 1765.
(Gen. Soc. of Pa., Vol. 218, p. 211; Vol. 220, p.
2937-)
She married, about 1783, John Good, who was a cor-
poral in the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental
Line, in active service during the Revolutionary War.
(Penna. Arch., 5th Series, Vol. II, pp. 1045, 1078;
Vol. IV, p. 134.)
They lived at 51 Sugar Alley (now Filbert Street, be-
tween Seventh and Eighth Streets) where John Good died
in 1793, during the yellow fever plague. Christina Good's
two brothers. Christian and William Howtzell, living on
same street, also died during this plague. "9 persons
died in Sugar Alley in 1793 of yellow fever. The
street opens between 34 and 36 North 6th Street and
runs to 7th. Zane Street or Elder, improperly called
Sugar Alley, continues it to 8th." (Edmund Hogan's
Phila. Directory for 1795, p. 88.)
(Gen. Soc. of Pa., Vol. 42, p. no. Phila. O. C.
Docket 18, pp. 192, 231.).
Christina Good died between 1793 and 1799.
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John and Christina Good had the following childre^i :
John, who died in infancy,
Catharine (3), born 1787, married James P. Fraser
December 31st, 1807, had issue, died January
30th, 1865.
Frederick.
(Phila. Deed Book I. C. 31, p. 147.)
Catharine, (3), daughter of John and Christina Good
was born in 1787, and died January 30th, 1865.
(Gravestone Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Phila., Pa.
Bureau of Vital Statistics Phila. City Hall.)
On December 31st, 1807, she married James P. Fraser.
(See Fraser Family, p. 34.)
(Gen. Soc. of Pa., Vol. 229, p. 469.)
Their daughter, Catharine Fraser (4), married Lewis
Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 13.)
Their son, Louis Reichner, Jr. (5), married Christiana
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 31.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (6), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (7).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (7).
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CLARK FAMILY
OF
GLOUCESTER COUNTY
NEW JERSEY
CLARK FAMILY
Jeffery Clark (i) was born of English parentage in
1702. He became a resident in Gloucester County, N. J.,
where on February loth, 1734, he obtained a license to
marry Mary Chew, widow of Nathaniel Chew, Sr.
(Copy in Vol. 2552, p. 53, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
He lived on the plantation of Garret Vanneman, near
Clonmell Creek, and there, in 1737, his son Thomas was
born.
(Thos. Clark's Journal, copy in Vol. 2552, p. 52,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Jeffery Clark was a prominent man in the community,
and Richard Peters on May 25th, 1748, gave him a power
to sue all persons cutting timber on the "Proprietaries
Lands" and directed John Ladd of Gloucester to assist
him as Magistrate.
(Copy in Vol. 2552, pp. 59, 85, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
In 1764 Jeffery Clark moved to the town of Gloucester,
where he purchased a lot and built a house on the "street
that leads from the Court House to Cooper's Ferry."
(Vol. T, pp. 469, 472, of Deeds, Secty. of State's
Office, Trenton, N. J.)
He remained in the town of Gloucester but a few years,
purchasing on October 27th, 1766, from Mary and Sarah
Norris a lot on the east side of Second Street below
Christian Street, Philadelphia, Pa., now (19 18) premises
911 and 913 South Second Street.
(Phila. Deed Book 38, p. 99. Vol. 2552, p. 81,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
His property in Gloucester, N. J., he advertised for
rent for a term of years.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXV, p. 354.)
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On July 19th, 1769, Jeffery Clark purchased from
Peter Laurenson a lot in the rear of his Philadelphia
farm, and became the owner of the lot from Front through
to Second Street, now (19 18) premises 916 South Front
vStreet.
(Phila. Deed Book I. 12, p. 222. Survey in Vol.
2552, p. 81, at Gen Soc. of Pa.)
Jeffery Clark died on his farm in Philadelphia January
20th, 1782, aged 79 years, Mary, his wife, having died
March i8th, 1778, aged 69 years. Both are buried in
the Altar Tomb in St. Paul's P. E. Church, Third Street
below Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
(History of Old St. Paul's, by Barratt, p. 244.)
His will dated January 20th, 1782, and proved March
2nd, 1782, recites him of Southw^ark, Philadelphia.
(Phila. Will Book S., p. 90.)
His children were:
George, born 1746, died 1767.
Timothy, died December 9th, 1778. IMarried Margery
, had issue.
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. I, 1715-1785,
in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc.)
Thomas (2), who married Christian Vanneman.
Jeffery, the pioneer of Clarksboro, N. J., born 1745,
married, had issue, died April 2, 1821. (Eglinton
Cemetery, Clarksboro, N. J.)
Catherine.
Elizabeth.
Mary, born 1745, married John Turner (buried in
St. Paul's Churchyard), and
Anne, who married Charles Day (buried at Colestown,
near Merchantville, N. J.)
Thomas Clark (2) son of Jeffery and Mary Clark, was
born February i8th, 1737, on the Vanneman plantation,
Clonmell's Creek, Gloucester County, N. J. He was
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baptized on March 20th, 1737, at the Swedesboro Church,
and Garret Vanneman was one of the sponsors.
(Original Records, Swedesboro Church, Vol. 1, 1715-
1785, in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc. Thos. Clark
Journal, copy in Vol. 2552, pp. 52, 54, Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
On April 8th, 1758, he was married by the Reverend
Lidenius at the Old Swedesboro Church to Christian
Vanneman, daughter of Garret Vanneman and Christian
Denny. (See Vanneman Family, p. 86.)
Thomas Clark owned considerable real estate in
Gloucester County. He lived in Greenwich Township,
near Clonmell Creek, until 1779, when he removed to
Deptford Township, and lived near Clarksboro.
(Deed Books A. O.. p. 337, A. P., p. 517, Glou. C,
p. 206, Trenton, N. J. Deed Book B. B., p. 317,
Woodbury, N.J. Thomas Clark Journal, Stewart's
Notes on Old Gloucester Co., Vol. i, p. 303.)
Their children were :
Edith, born May 5th, 1759, married David Hendrick-
son. May 21st, 1777. died March 25, 1816.
Mary, born January 28th, 1761, married Joseph Paul
January 7th, 1780, died August 9th, 1820.
Anne (Nancy), born March 4th, 1763, married
Samuel D. Paul February loth, 1786.
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. I, 1715-85,
in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc.)
Elizabeth, born December 29th, 1764, married Ed-
mund Weatherby February loth, 1786^ died September
i2th, 1795.
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. I, 1715-85,
in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc.)
Thomas, born January i8th, 1767, married Achsa
Pancoast December 21st, 1786.
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. I, 1715-85,
in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc. Woodbury Meeting
Records, Vol. 1022, p. 30, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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Lydia, born March 26th, 1769, married Andres
Ridgway August 21st, 1788, died September 4th, 1804.
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. I, 1715-85,
in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc.)
Jeffery, Jr. (3), born November 20th, 1771, married
Rachel Weatherby August 12th, 1790.
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. I, 1715-85,
in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc.)
Christian, born July 12th, 1774, married James C.
Wood September 30th, 1790.
Joseph, born September 23rd, 1776, married Elizabeth
Tiers September 22nd, 1796, died September 2nd, 1828.
John Clark, born April 3rd, 1779, married Mary Lane
November 7th, 1799.
(Thos. Clark Journal, copy in Vol. 2552, p. 52,
Gen. Soc. of Pa. Stewart's Notes on Old
Gloucester, p. 305. Records of Swedesboro
Church, Vol. 1037, p. 187, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Thomas Clark was one of the noted men in Gloucester
County, N. J., during the Revolutionary period. On
February 2nd, 1772, he was appointed by the Governor
a Justice of the Peace in Gloucester County, took the
oath of office under the King's Government, and remained
until the Revolution.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XVHI, p. 275.)
In April, 1775, he was elected one of the Council of
Proprietors for the Western Division of New Jersey,
and served for many years, part of the time as its Vice-
President. He represented Gloucester County in the
Provisional Congress of New Jersey which met in Trenton
October 4th, 1775. He was a member for Gloucestei
County of the Provisional Congress of New Jersey which
met at New Brunswick January 31st, 1776.
On September 20th, 1778, he was elected one of the
Convention of New Jersey when they assumed the
Government of New Jersey.
In October, 1784, he was elected Assembl3'man for
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Gloucester County and served seven years in the New
Jersey legislature.
In November, 1795, and again in November, iSoo, he
was elected a Judge of the Pleas in Gloucester County.
'He was one of the Legislative Council of New Jersey
for the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803.
(Thos. Clark's Journal, copy in Vol. 2552, p. 52,
Gen. Soc. of Pa. Stewart's Notes on Old
Gloucester County, p. 304. N. J. Arch., ist
Ser., Vol. X, p. 351. Amer. Arch., 4th Series,
Vol. 3, vear 177s, P- 12 18; years 177^-76,
Vol. XV,"p. 1579.)^
During the Revolution he visited Philadelphia, and was
captured by the British October 4th, 1777, and, as he
says, "I was kept a prisoner during an action with the
American Shippen. It happened to be on the day of the
Germantown Battle, wdth Mr. Tench Francis. We got
liberty to go home on that account."
He, together with his friend Dr. Bodo Otto, a Colonel
in the Revolutionary Army, whose house at Mantua
Creek was burned by the British in 1778, founded the
Episcopal Church at Berkley (now Mount Royal), in 1770.
(Barber and Howe History, p. 210. Stewart's
Notes on Old Gloucester County, p. 70.)
At one time he built and owned two houses in Phila-
delphia, one located on the east side of Sixth vStreet,
165 feet north of High (Market) Street, the other on Queen
Street, but, as he says in his Journal, "gained nothing
by them."
(Phila. Deed Books D. 24, p. 18; D. 37, p. 302.)
Thomas Clark died at his home near Clarksboro, N. J.,
on October 29th, 1809, and his wife on January 17th,
181 7. They both are buried in Eglinton Cemetery at
Clarksboro.
(Gushing and Sheppard History of Gloucester Co.,
p. 212. Tombstones Eglinton Cemetery. Will
Books A, p. 280; B, p. 71, Woodbury, N. J.)
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Jeffery Clark, Junior (3), son of Thomas and Christian
Clark, was born in Gloucester County, N. J., on Novem-
ber 20th, 1 77 1. On August 12th, 1789, he was married
by his uncle, Jeffer}^ Clark, Esquire, Justice of the Peace,
to Rachel Weatherby, daughter of Benjamin Weatherby
and Edith Smith. (See Weatherby Family, p. 66.)
(Clark Bible Records, Thos. Clark Journal, copies
in Vol. 2552, pp. 52, 77, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
They had the following children:
Samuel, born September 27th, 1790.
Elizabeth, born September 9th, 1792.
Christi.vn (4), born December i8th, 1794, married
James R. Stephens.
JefTery Smith, born January 9th, 1796.
Hepkier, born March 18th, 1799.
Mary, born June 22nd, 1801.
Thomas, born August 20th, 1803, died July 3rd, 1830.
Ann, born October 20th, 1805.
Smith, born March 2nd, 1808.
Edward, born April 24th, 1810.
Joseph Vanneman, born February 3d, 18 13.
(Clark Bible Records, Publications Gen. Soc. of
Pa., Vol. VII, No. I, pp. 26, 27, 28. Vol. 2552,
p. 77, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Jeffery Clark, Jr., lived near Great Mantua Creek on
the Sandtown or Berkley (now Mount Royal) and
Barnesboro Road, and was possessed of considerable
property.
(Deed Books U, p. 391; R., p. 269; O. pp. 304,
349, Woodbury, N. J.)
He died in Gloucester County December 19th, 181 2,
and his wife on October 20th, 1843. Both are buried in
the cemetery at Mount Royal, N. J.
(Tombstones Mount Royal Cemetery, Clark Bible
Records, copy in Vol. 2552, p. 77, at Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
Jeffery Clark's will, dated September 8th, 1812, and
proved December 22d, 1812, names his wife Rachel and
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appoints John Rambo guardian of his minor sons, Jeffery,
Thomas, Smith, and Edward.
(Will Book A., p. 419, Woodbury, N. J.)
Christian Clark (4), daughter of Jeffery and Rachel
Clark, was born near Clarksboro, Gloucester County,
N. J., December i8th, 1794, and on February 27th, 1812,
was married at Woodbury, N. J., by Justice of the Peace
James Alatlack to James Reeves Stephens, son of James
Stephens and Sarah Reeves. (See Stephens Famil}',
p. 28.)
(Clark Bible Records, Stephens Bible Records,
"Record of Marriages," Woodbury, N. J., p. 208,
copies in Vol. 2552, pp. 51, 77, 20, 21, at Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
She died in Philadelphia, Pa., June loth, 1877, her
husband having predeceased her on April 22nd, 1864.
(Phila. Will Books 53, p. 24, and 90, p. 89. Bureau
of Vital Statistics, Phila., Vol. Deaths of 1864,
p. 141; Vol. I of Deaths, p. 195).
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (5), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 30.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (6), married
Louis Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (7), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (8), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (8), born August 29th,
1905.
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REEVES FAMILY
OF
BURLINGTON AND GLOUCESTER COUNTIES
NEW JERSEY
REEVES FAMILY
Walter Reeve (i) was a colonist of West Jersey,
arriving prior to 1682. He settled in Burlington County,
living on his plantation of one hundred and sixty acres
bordering on Rancocas Creek, until his death in 1698.
(Deed Book X, p. 176, Sect'3^ of State's Office,
Trenton, X. J.)
He probably was from England, although he may
have come to Burlington County from Southhold, Long
Island.
(Annals of Sinnott Family, by Leach, p. 113.)
The records in Xew Jersey show a bill of lading issued
to him on April 3rd, i6gi.
(Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, X. J.)
He was twice married, the name of his first wife being
unknown. On Xovember nth, 16S2, he married Anne
Howell, who survived him nearly forty years.
(X. J. Arch., ist Series, Vol. XXH, p. 320.)
The will of Walter Reeve dated May i6th, 169S, and
proved June iSth, 1698, names his wife Anne, sons
John (2), William, and Joseph, and his daughter Susanna.
(Vol. HI, Unrecorded Wills, pp. 317-324. Will
Book I, p. ^41, Sect'y of State's Office, Trenton.
N. J.)
The will of his widow, Anne Reeve, dated September
23rd, 1732, and proved July 31st, 1733, names her sons
Walter, Joseph, Elisha, Caleb, and Samuel.
C2345-2360 C of Wills, Sect'y of State's Office,
Trenton, X. J.)
John Reeves (2) was a son by the first wife of Walter
Reeve. He was probably born in England, although he
may have been born in Southhold, Long Island. On
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July 22nd, 1695, he married Anne Bradgate in-the Burl-
ington and Mount Holly Aleeting.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXII, p. 320.)
He resided in Burlington County, and on December
nth, 1704, was granted the right to ferry between Burl-
ington and Philadelphia by Governor Cornbury.
(Book AAA Scct'y of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.,
p. 24.)
Ferry privileges afthis time were by public authorities
and constituted valuable franchises. The "ferries" were
open boats with sails.
John Reeves died in 174S, possibly in Burlington
County, although he may have died at the house of
one of his sons in Gloucester County, as in the inventory
of his estate, dated November 8th, 1748, and filed there,
he is styled "late of Burlington County."
In a deed executed February 7th, 1765, by his son,
Thomas Reeves, of Deptford Township, Gloucester
County, the father is st^ded "the son and heir of Walter
Reeve."
(Deed Book X, p. 176, Sect'y of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
John Reeve was a guest at the wedding of George
Deacon and Alartha Charles February 22nd, 1693-4 and
his autograph is on their marriage certificate.
He was married to Anne Bradgate on July 22nd, 1695,
at the house of Thomas Revell in Burlington County.
(Burlington Records 16S0, p. 46, Sect'y of State's
Office, Trenton, N. J.)
Their children were :
Thomas Reeves (3) died 1 7 So, married Sarah Biddle
and had issue.
Henry Reeves, died 1745, married Abigail Shinn in
1728.
Abraham Reeves, married vSusan Bryant.
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Thomas Reeves (3) was born in Burlington County
about 1700, and died in Deptford Township, Gloucester
County, December 2nd, 1780.
(Tombstone in Reeves Burial Ground on Clement
Budd Farm, near Woodbury, N. J.)
He was a landed proprietor in Willingborough Town-
ship, and in 1734 conveyed to Thomas Wetherill land in
Burlington County, and in deed dated February 7th,
1765, to his cousin, Michael Reeve, he is styled "the son
and heir at law of John Reeves who was the son and
heir at law of Walter Reeve."
(Deed Books X, p. 176; E. F., p. 344, vSecty of
State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
In the Pennsylvania Gazette, issue of March 3rd, 1757,
there is a notice that there is for sale by Thomas Reeves
"living near the premises" 200 acres in Deptford Town-
ship, Gloucester County, N. J., seven miles from
Gloucester and half a mile from Mantua Creek.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XX, p. 94.)
He had probably removed from Burlington County to
Gloucester County about 1734.
In his will, dated July 6th, 1779, and proved June ist,
1782,
(Will 1364 H. Book 23, p. 31S, Sect'y of State's
Office, Trenton, N. J.)
he names the following children:
Biddle, who died 1789, married Ann Clement 1759.
Arthur (4) who died 1786, married Mary Cox 1758.
Thomas, born 1728, died 1802, married Kaziah
Brown.
Joseph, born 1743, died 1825, married i — Elizabeth
Morgan; 2 — Sarah Gill.
Ann, married John Wood, 1765, and the following
grandchildren :
Peter Rambo, son of Rachel Reeves, who married
Benjamin Rambo in 1757. and
John Reeves.
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Thomas Reeves, the father of the above children
married Sarah Biddle about 1725. They both were
witnesses to the will of John Green, of Burlington County,
on November 27th, 1732, and the will of Richard Floyd,
of Burlington County, on July 24th, 1748.
(West Jersey Wills Book 3, p. 228, Book 6, p. 104,
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
Sarah Biddle Reeves was the daughter of Thomas
Biddle and Rachel Groesbeck.
(See Biddle and Groesbeck Families, pp. 136, 120.)
Arthur Reeves (4) son of Thomas and Sarah Biddle
Reeves, resided in Deptford Township, Gloucester
County, N. J.
His plantation of two hundred acres he inherited from
his father, Thomas Reeves.
(Deed Book L. L., p. 417, Woodbury, N. J.)
He was overseer of roads in Gloucester County in
1773-
(Gushing and Shephard's History of Gloucester
Co., N. J., pp. 189, 190.)
His will dated April 8th, 1786, proved May 2nd, 1786,
names four sons, and refers to his daughters but not by
name.
(Will Book 28, p. Ill, Sect'y of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
His wife was Mary Cox, daughter of Jonas Cox and
Sarah Bull.
(See Cox and Bull Families, pp. 74, 102.)
They were married in Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia,
on May 7th, 1758, and she survived her husband, dying
August 3rd, 1822.
(Vol. 2552, p. 65, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Their children were :
Arthur, who died unmarried in 1821.
Aaron, married Mary A. Bond and had issue.
William, married Elizabeth and had issue.
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Beulah, married E. D. Clayton.
Mary, married Joseph Cook, had issue and died.
James, married Alargaret Solomon in 1840, had issue
and died in 1849.
Edith, married Groff and had issue.
Rachel, died unmarried.
Sarah (5) who married James Stephens on March 24th,
1779, and had issue. (See Stephens Family, p. 26.)
(Vol. 2552, pp. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, at Gen. vSoc.
of Pa.)
Sarah Reeves (5), daughter of Arthur Reeves and
Mary Cox, married James Stephens in the Swedish
Lutheran Church (now Trinity P. E.) at Swedesboro,
N. J., on March 24th, 1779.
(Records of Church at Swedesboro on Raccoon
from 1 7 15 to 1785, Vol. I, now (191 8) in safe at
Hist. Soc. of Pa.)
Their son, James Reeves Stephens (6), married Christ-
iana Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 54.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (7), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (8), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (9), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (10).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (10).
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WEATHERBY FAMILY
OF
SALEM AND GLOUCESTER COUNTIES
NEW JERSEY
WEATHERBY FAMILY
William Weatherby (i) and his brothers, Benjamin,
Daniel, David and Henry and his sisters, Elizabeth,
Mary, Catherine and Rachel, came to New Jersey from
Long Island. Their mother, "Jean," was born in County
Tyrone, Ireland.
(Lee's History of Mercer County, Vol. II, p. 816.J
William Weatherby settled in Greenwich Township,
Gloucester County, and married Anne, widow of John
Rumford, between 1739 and 1748.
(Estate of John Rumford, Gloucester Co. Wills,
Trenton File, 1737-39.)
William Weatherby died in 1753, and in his will,
proved September 24th, 1753, named his wife, x\nne, his
children, Benjamin (2), Daniel, David, Henry, Mary
(Sidden), Elizabeth (Sparks), Catherine (Marshall), and
Rachel.
(Will Book 7, p. 432, Secty. of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
Rachel afterward married Thomas, as she is
styled Rachel Thomas in her mother, Anne Weatherby's,
will in 1775.
(Will Book 17, p. 191, Secty. of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
Benjamin Weatherby (2), of Gloucester County, N. J.,
was the first-named son in- the will of his father, William.
He married Margaret , who, after his decease,
married John Paul, of Greenwich Township, Gloucester
County.
Benjamin and Margaret Weatherby had two sons,
Benjamin (3) and William.
William died, leaving a daughter who died in infancy.
John Paul, who married Margaret Weatherb}^ after
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the decease of her husband, Benjamin, died in 1771, and
in his will devised land at BilHngsport, near the mouth of
Mantua Creek, to his wife, Margaret, during her u-idow-
hood, and thereafter to her sons, Benjamin and William
Weatherby.
On July 15th, 1776, Margaret Paul, the widow, and Ben-
jamin Weatherby, her son, conveyed ninety-six acres at
BilHngsport to George Clymer and Michael Hillegas,
Treasurer of the United States.
(Will Book 15, p. 125, Secty. of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J. Deed Books C, pp. 280, 284,
I, pp. 36, 45, 151, Woodbury, N. J.)
Benjamin (3), son of Benjamin and Margaret Weath-
erby, was born about 1749 and married by license of
February 6th, 1772, Edith Smith, daughter of James
Smith^ and Rachel Quinton. (See Smith and Ouinton
Families, pp. 96, 112.)
(N. J. Arch., ist Sen, Vol. XXII, p. 433.)
He was a Methodist and she was of Quaker parentage,
so that for this marriage she was "read out of Meeting''
by the Quakers.
After his marriage Benjamin Weatherby lived upon
his farm in Upper Alloways Township, Salem County,
N. J., on the opposite side of the creek from Quinton 's
Bridge, now (1918), Quinton, N. J.
The devisees of John Smith in conveying this propertv
in 1 81 2 recite that part of it was conveyed to John S.
Smith by Benjamin Weatherby, but give no date for the
deed.
(Deed Book P, p. 82, Salem, N. J.)
On March i8th, 1778, Benjamin Weatherby's family
were living on this farm when the battle of Quinton''s
Bridge took place. During the battle they were compelled
to take refuge in the cellar while the British occupied the
house and barn.
(Barber and Howe's Hist. Col. of N. J., p. 417.
Johnson's History of Salem, pp. 137, 140.)
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Benjamin Weatherby was a Captain in the Continental
Army during the Revolutionary War. He entertained
his fellow-officers at his residence after the Battle
of Red Bank. He owned a large farm at Billingsport
with a house built of brick imported from Europe.
As Captain of the Third Regiment, Gloucester County
Militia, attached to Lieutenant-Colonel Hillman's First
Regiment, Gloucester Militia, he engaged the British
at Mount Holly and in the battles of Trenton and
Princeton.
He was also Captain of the Fifth Compan3^ Colonel
Oliver Spencer's Regiment of Foot, Continental Line,
February 23rd, 1777, to August, 1780, and saw active
duty in the Indian campaign against the vSix Nations in
Western Pennsylvania.
For his services he received, on July 24th, 1790, Land
Warrant No. 2374 from the United ^States Government
for three hundred acres of land.
(Adjutant General's Office, Trenton, N. J., Con-
tinental Line Auditor's Account, Apg. 7. Ref.
MSS. No. 9901, p. 150, MSS. Nos. 2391, 2417,
2410. Inv. #3733, #31393, History of Mercer
County, N. J., Vol. H, p. 816.)
He retired from the Army January ist, 1781, and took
up his residence at Willow Grove in Gloucester Count}'.
He and his wife, Edith, made many conveyances of land,
including his interest in the Paul Fishery on the Delaware
River below Mantua Creek.
(Deed Books H, p. 107; I, pp. 36, 151, 148, 45,
Woodbury, N. J.)
One of the deeds was witnessed by his son-in-law,
Jeffery Clark, Jr.
' (Deed Book I, p. 151, Woodbury, N. J.)
Benjamin Weatherby died in 18 18, and immediately
his wife, Edith, applied to Quaker Meeting for admission
to membership. This was granted, and she became a
member of the Woodbury Friends Meeting on April gth,
1 8 18. Shortly after she removed to Trenton, N. J., with
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her daughter, Hannah Stephens, where they attended the
Chesterfield Meeting.
(Minutes of the Woodbury Meeting, Gen. Soc. of
Pa., Vol. 1023, pp. 401, 402, 409, 410.)
She died September 20th, 1S50, in the sixty-ninth year
of her age. Her obituary in the Trenton, X. J., Federalist,
of September 25th, 1820, says, "She was of the Society
of Friends of which she was an exemplary member. Such
was the excellence of her disposition that to know her
once was to love her forever."
("Federalist" File, N. J. State Librarv, Trenton,
N. J.)
Benjamin and Edith Weatherby had the following
children :
Rachel (4) born September 9th, 1772, married Jeffrey
Clark, Jr.
Hannah, born March 4th, 1785, married, in 1808, Isaac
Stephens (born September ist, 1780), son of Isaac
Stephens and Sarah Woolston. (See Stephens Family,
P- 25.)
(Births and deaths, Woodbury Monthly Meeting,
Vol. 1022, p. 37, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Will of James
Smith, Phila. Will Book B. p. 596. Deed Books
I. I., p. 409; Q., pp. 274, 460, Woodbury, N. J.)
Anne, who married her cousin, John K. Smith, son of
her mother's brother, John Smith.
(Will of James Smith, Phila. Will Book 8, p. 596.)
Edith Smith, born May nth, 1789, died May 19th,
1876, married Thomas Chew Sterling.
James married Deborah Stackhouse.
Benjamin, born 1 78 1 , died. 1827, married Sarah Richards.
(Deed Books K, p. 175; P., p. 134; W., pp. 304,
316; Y., p. 114, Woodbur^^ N. J. Will 3813
H., Trenton, N. J.)
Martha, married Inskeep.
Mary, married Crim.
William, married Jane Thompson.
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Rachel (4), the eldest daughter of Benjamin and
Edith Weatherby, was born in Salem County, N. J., near
Quinton, September 9th, 1772,
(Clark Bible Records, copy in Vol. 2552, p. 77, at
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
and on August 12th, 17S9, was married to Jeffrey Clark,
Jr. (See Clark Family, p. 53.) They lived throughout
their lives in Gloucester County, near Clarksboro.
(Deed Books U., p. 391; Q., pp. 304, 349. Wood-
bury, N. J.)
Her husband died December 19th, 181 2, and her death
occurred October 20th, 1843. Both are buried in A/Tount
Royal Cemetery, near Clarksboro, N.J.
Their daughter. Christian Clark (5), married James
Reeves Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 28.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (6), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (7), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
. (See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (8), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
I Aiken Reichner (9), born June 4th, 1900.
■ Morgan Stephens Reichner (9), born August 29th, 1905.
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JONES FAMILY
OF
CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANLA.
JONES FAMILY
Francis Jones (i) with his family came to Pennsyl-
vania in 1 71 1, presenting to the Philadelphia Monthly
Meeting of Friends on February 29th in that year a
certificate from the Men's Meeting at Redstone, stating
that they had come to " Dembrock Sheire from Ireland"
about three years before and have "all along lived in
love and peace with ffriends and neighbors and behaving
themselves orderly and Cyvil in all Respects, to the utmost
of our knowledge and also do depart out of our Country
in Love and with the consent of ffriends." This certifi-
cate was dated August 17th, 171 1, and was later (August
31st, 1 7 13) presented to the Chester Monthly Meeting.
(Minutes of Phila. Monthly Meeting for 1711,
Vol. II, p. 217. Cope Brief in Vol. 2552,
pp. 31, 32, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In 1 7 14 Francis Jones and his family moved to Duck
Creek.
He had four sons :
Samuel (2), born July loth, 1688, married Hannah
Francis Jones, Jr., born August 29th, 1690, married
Jane Medcalf, of Gloucester, N. J., and located at Gap,
Lancaster County, Pa., where he .died in 1737. His
widow married in 1739 Isaac Taylor, of that locality,
formerly of New Jersey. In 17 19 Francis Jones was
Constable for Gloucester, N. J., in place of Samuel Ladd,
and w^as also the overseer of highways there in the same
year.
Henry Jones, born June 24th, 1693, married "out of
Meeting" by a Justice December 17th, 1730, to Eleanor
Lindley, widow of Jam.es Lindley, of Londongrove Town-
ship; and
Jonas Jones, who was born August 15th, 1695.
(Vol. 2552, p. 31, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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Samuel Jones (2), eldest son of Francis Jones, was born
in Ireland, July loth, 1688, and came to Pennsylvania
with his father in 1711, having married in Wales in 17 10.
His wife Hannah accompanied him, and all of their
children were born in Pennsylvania, viz. :
Mary, born May 25th, 171 2.
Rachel, born September 25th, 1715, married Isaac
Stephens.
Hannah, born November 25th, 17 18.
Samuel, born September 29th, 1720.
Joseph.
Esther.
(Chester Monthly Meeting Records, Vol. II, p. 48.
Vol. 2552, p. 48, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Samuel Jones upon his arrival in Pennsylvania in 1 7 1 1
presented to the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting a certifi-
cate from the Meeting at Haverford West, in Wales, for
himself and wife. He lived in Philadelphia until 17 13,
for we find that on July 27th, 17 13, he produced to the
Chester Monthly Meeting a certificate of removal from
Philadelphia "for the sake of his business."
(Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Minutes, Vol. II,
pp. 72, 260, 261, 265. Vol. 2552, p. 32, at Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
He was taxed in Aston Township, Chester County, Pa.,
in 1715, 1718, 1719 and 1720. In 1721 he asked the
Meeting for a certificate of removal for himself and
wife to Coin Township, where he was taxed in that year.
In 1 7 16 he was an Overseer of the Chester Meeting, and
in 1722 he removed from Cain Township to Sadsbury
Township, where his name appears upon the tax lists
for 1722, 1724, 1725 and 1726.
(Cope Brief, Vol. 2552, pp. 3 1,32, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Here he lived until November gth, 1743, when, his
wife being dead, he removed with his children, Joseph and
Esther, to Philadelphia. The date of his death is not
known.
(Phila. Monthly Meeting Certfs. of Removal, p. 166.)
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Rachel Jones (3), daughter of vSamuel and Hannah
Jones, was born in Chester County, Pa., September 25th,
1 715. On March 3rd, 1736, at the Leacock Meeting,
Chester County, Pa., she married Isaac vStephens of
Newton, Gloucester County, N. J. (See Stephens
Family, p. 22.)
(Haddonfield Meeting Records, 1735. Chester
County Monthly Meeting Records, pp. 370, 380.)
Rachel Jones predeceased her husband, dying between
1 751 and 1757. He died in August, 1757, near Pauls-
boro. N. J.
Their son, James Stephens (4), married Sarah Reeves.
(See Reeves Family, p. 60.)
Their son, James Reeves Stephens (5), married Chris-
tiana Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 54.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (6), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Tlieir daughter, Christiana Stephens (7), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (8), married Cephise
H3'acinthe Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (9).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (9),
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cox AND NELSON FAMILIES
OF
PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY
cox FAMILY
Peter Larssen Cock (i) (Kock, Cox) was born in 1612
in Sweden, and came to the Colony on the Delaware
River in 1641. In the record of the Upland Court,
November 14th, 1676, his name appears as one of the
six Justices. In 1658 Peter Cock and Peter Rambo met
the Dutch Governor, Peter Stuyvesant, at Tinicum "with
a petition for various privileges." In 1663 Peter Cock
was appointed Collector of Tolls and was a member of
Governor Carr's Council in 1668 and President Judge
1676 to 1688.
(Hazard's Annals, pp. 243, 324, 349, 371. Penna.
Mag., Vol. VII, pp. 106, 107.)
He died about 1688, leaving a will dated June 25th,
1687, proved March 4th, 1688-9. I^ this will he men-
tions his wife, Margaret, and son Gabriel and his "sons
and daughters" but not by name.
(Will Book A, p. 126, Phila.)
Of their children :
Gabriel, married Maria .
Lawrence (Lassy), born March 21st, 1646, married
Martha May 15th, 1669.
Erick, married Elizabeth died May 15th, 1669.
Anna, married Gunner Rambo.
Magdalena, married Andrew Longacre.
MouNCE (2) (Moses) mairied Gunnilla Nelson, daughter
of Jonas Nelson of Kingsessing (will dated January 14th,
1693, proved October 23rd, 1693, Phila. Will Book A,
p. 245). Gunnilla is mentioned in his will as "Gunla."
John, married Brigetta ■
Peter, married Helene Helm.
Brigitta, married John Rambo.
,Mounce (Moses) Cox (2) about 1680 married Gunnilla
Nelson, daughter of Jonas and Gertrude Nelson.
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Their children were :
Margaret (named after her grandmother Margaret
Cox), born in 1681.
Peter (named after his grandfather Peter Cox), born
in 1683, bought from Robeson August 6th. 1717, thirteen
hundred and seventy-seven acres on Mantua Creek.
(Deed Book A. C, p. 254, Woodbury.)
Jonas (3) (named after his grandfather Jonas Xelson\
born in 1685.
Helene, born in 1687.
Maria, born in 1692.
Catherine, born in 1696.
(Penna. Mag., \'ol. II, pp. 88, 224, 341, Vol. 2076.
pp. 80, 188, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
There was also a son Eric who was born later than
the above-named children, as there were eight in the
family in 1693.
(Acrelius Hist, of Xew Sweden, p. 190, Vol. XI,
Pa. Hist. Soc. Publications.)
Mounce Cox on April loth, 1697, purchased from
Stephen Day ground in Gloucester County.
(Deed Book Z, p. 4S8, Trenton, 'x. J. R. P.,
Vol. II, p. 58.)'
Jonas Cox (3). son of Mounce and Gunnilla Cox was
born in 1685. On ^Ma}' i8th, 1727, in the Church at
Swedesboro, X. J., he married Sarah Bull, daughter of
Thomas Bull. (See Bull Family, p. 102.)
(Record of Swedesboro Church, Vol. 1037, p. 302.
Gen. Soc. of Pa.) ■
Their children were :
Mouns (Moses) born January 28th, 1728, died 1786.
married (i) Elizabeth (Letitia) Fisher by license of
October loth, 1754, died 1771, (2) Mary Xale (Xagle)
by license of March loth, 1774. Had issue.
(Will Book 31, p. 20, Trenton, X. J.)
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-\Iargaret, born February 19th, 1 730, died May 23rd, 1 73 1 .
(Vol. I, Swedesboro Church Records in safe at
Penna. Hist. Soc.)
Mary (4), born September 21st, 1734, married Arthur
Reeves.
Thomas, married Jane (She died 1792.)
(Will Book 34, p. 425, Trenton, N. J.)
(Their son Hugh married Susanna Packer, and died
in 1832. Compare autograph of Jane, wife of Thomas
Cox, on Deed, Vol. 2553, p. 57, Gen. Soc. of Pa., with that
of Jane Cox on original will recorded Will Book 34, p. 425,
Trenton.)
Gabriel.
William, married Died 1787 intestate.
(O. C. Docket A, p. 10, Woodbury.)
Sarah, died unmarried after 1749.
(Vol. 2552, p. 103; Vol. 2553, p. 57, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa. Deed Book 4, p. 154, Woodbury, N. J.
Will of Nicholas Dalberry (Dolberg), Will
Book 6, p. 87, Trenton, N. J.)
Jonas Cox died in 1756 intestate, and his eldest son
Moses was appointed administrator of his estate.
(Will Book 8, p. 308, Trenton, N. J.)
Mary Cox (4), daughter of Jonas Cox and Sarah Bull
was born September 21st, 1734, and baptized in the
Swedesboro (N. J.) Church October 6th, 1734. Her
sponsors at baptism were Jonas Cox (her father) , Gabriel
Cox (her uncle), Ellen (Helene) and Catherine Cox
(her aunts).
(Records of the Church at Swedesborough on
Raccoon from 17 15 to 1785, Vol. I in safe at
Penna. Hist. Soc.)
On May 7th, 1758, she married Arthur Reeves, son of
Thomas and Sarah Reeves. (See Reeves Family, p. 59.)
In the record of the marriage at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes)
(74)
Church, Philadelphia, Arthur Reeves and ]\Iary Cox are
recited as of West New Jersey.
(Vol. 2552, p. 65, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
She was the only Mary Cox in Gloucester County who
was of marriageable age in 1758.
The Jonas Cox plantation was near the P.eeves home-
stead, and in 1757, the year before her marriage, she
signed as "Mar}' Cox" the deed executed by the children
of Jonas Cox.
(Vol. 2553, p. 57, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Her nephew, Hugh Cox, son of Thomas and Jane Cox,
at his death was buried in the Reeves Family Bur3'ing
Ground, where his tombstone stands today.
When Arthur Reeves died, his wife, Mary Cox Reeves,
went to live with her son-in-law, James Stephens, who
had married her daughter Sarah.
(Vol. 2552, pp. 24, 25, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Upon her decease on August 3rd, 1822, her obituary
appeared in the "Herald and Gloucester Farmer" and
she is stated to have died in her ninetieth year.
(Vol. 2552, p. 65, at Gen Soc. of Pa.)
From her birth date in the Swedesboro Church Records
she was within one month of eighty-eight years old at
the time of her death. In the case of such an aged
person an error of two years may be understood.
Her daughter, Sarah Reeves (5), married James
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 26.)
Their son, James Reeves Stephens (6), married
Christian Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 54.)
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Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (7), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, }). 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (8), married Loui;
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (9) , married Cephise H.
Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (10).
Morgan Stephens Reichner do),
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NELSON FAMILY
Jonas Nelson (ij was an immigrant from Sweden, and
died at Kingsessing about 1693 ; married Gertrude .
Their children :
Christina, born 1659, married Frederick King in 1686.
Gertrude, born 1671, married Elias Toy in 1690.
Catharine, born 1674.
Anna, born 1676.
Brigetta, born 1680.
Gunnilla, married Mouns Cox.
(Penna. Mag., Vol. II, p. 224; Vol. 2076, p. 70,
Pa. Hist. Soc.)
He died in 1693, leaving a will dated January 14th,
1693, proved October 23rd, 1693.
(Phila. Will Book A., p. 245.)
Gunniila Nelson (2) married ]\Iouns Cox.
(Sec Cox Family, p. 72.)
Their son, Jonas Cox (3), married Sarah Bull.
(See Bull Family, p. 102.)
Their daughter, Mary Cox (4), married Arthur Reeves.
(See Reeves Family, p. 59.)
Their daughter, Sarah Reeves (5), married James
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 26.)
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Their son, James Reeves Stephens (6), married
Christian Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 54.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (7), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (8), married Loui^
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14,)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (9), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (10).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (10).
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VANNEMAN FAMILY
OF
SALEM AND GLOUCESTER COUNTIES
NEW JERSEY
VANNEMAN FAMILY
The name, Vanneman, \'an Neaman, \"an Immen, is of
Swedish origin, and is ]jrobably a "place name," i. c,
indicating the locaHty in the Old Country from which the
immigrant came.
(Acrelius History of New Sweden, Pa., Hist. Soc.
Publications, Vol. XI, p. 193.)
Johannes Van Immen (i) (or Vanjmy) first appears
upon the list of taxables with his son Gerrit at the New
Castle Court on 8 February, 1676/7.
He was a witness before the Court at New Castle on
May 6th, 1676, and testified that Major John Fenwdck
had demanded of him why he did not come to New
Salem to acknowledge him (Fenwick) as Lord and
Proprietor, and that he had replied that he could not so
own him as long as he (Van Immen) w^as paying a levy
of 12 guilders 10 stivers per head at New Castle Court.
(N. J. Arch., ist Series, Vol. i, p. 195.)
Governor Andros on October 28th, 1678, directed the
Justices of the Court at New Castle to take care that the
inhabitants on the East side of the Delaware River be
not disturbed in their possessions by Major Fenwick.
(Ibid., p. 204.)
On November 27th, 1684, William Penn through his
agent Nevill, granted him 200 acres in Salem County,
New Jersey.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXI, p. 643. Nevill
A., p. 23.)
He was appointed in 1 702 by Mary Jacquett, widow of
Paul Jacquett, one of the executors of her will, together
with William Sluby and Walter Hughstes.
(Salem Wills 7, pp. 18, 21.)
He was a man of property, reciting in his will his
plantation where he lived, valued at four score pounds,
(80)
also the land bought of William Hall and that which he
bought of William Slowby (one of his co-executors under
the Jacquett will). One of the witnesses to his v/ill was
another of the Jacquett executors, viz., Walter Hughstaed.
His will recites him as Johannes Vanniman, altho the
signature in Swedish is "Jamive." It is undated and was
proved May 7th, 1707. The inventory of his personal
estate, made by Elias Giljohnson and John Minhe, shovvs
a valuation of 112 pounds, and was filed September 17th,
1706. In this instrument the decedent is referred to as
Johannes Vaneman, or Venemy, of Salem County.
Johannes Vanneman speaks in his will of his wife,
Elizabeth, his sons John, Wolow, Henry, Garrat and
Peter, and tvv'o unnamed children, probably daughters.
His wife and son John he appoints as executors.
(Will Book I, p. 178, Will 138 O, Trenton, N. J.)
John Vanneman had the following children :
John, who was a private in Captain Enloye's Company,
Penn's Neck, Salem County, in 17 15 — married Cattren
Johnson, sister of Martin Johnson (or Giljohnson) of
Salem County — died 1 7 19, leaving widow, eldest son Jonas
and four other unnamed sons. (The widow afterward
married Jacob Van de Veer.)
(Records Adjt. Gen. Dept., Trenton, N. J., Col.
Period 16S3-1715, p. 22. N. J. Arch., ist Ser..
Vol. XXIli, pp. 476, 477. Will Book 2, p. 123,
Trenton, N. J.)
Wolow (Oula, also William), who was a private in
Captain Lloyd's Regiment of Piles Grove, Salem County,
in 1 7 15, married Magdalena ■ died 1748, leaving
wife, sons Jacob, William, Andrew, daughters Rebecca,
Elizabeth, Lawrence.
(Records Adjt. Gen'l, Trenton, N. J., Col. Period
1683-1715, p. 21. Will Book 6, p. 225, Trenton,
N. J.)
Henry, who married Maria Vandeveer 1724, had
daughter, Elizabeth, born 1728, and
Garret (2).
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Garret (2), was a signer of the Concessions and Agree-
ments of West Jersey dated March 3rd, 1676. His name
appears thereon as "Garret Van jimme."
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. i, pp. 241-268.)
James Nevill, the agent of Vv^ilHam Penn, granted to
him and Yelious Gill Johnson 300 acres on Fen wick's
River, Salem County, on October 28th, 1684.
(N. J. Arch., ist Series, Vol. XVI, p. 643. Deeds
Nevill A., pp. 15-19, Trenton, N. J.)
In 1686 he registered the earmarks of his cattle in
Gloucester County.
(Gloucester County Earmarks, p. iS, Gen. Soc. of
Pa.)
In 1694, Garret Vanjmy executed a quit claim to Mar-
garet Gillett, of Salem.
(N; J. Arch., ist Series, Vol. XVI, p. 618. Salem
Deeds 6, p. 132, Trenton, N. J.)
On March 28th, 1698, he conveyed to John Bristow
his one-half interest in the 300 acres he had purchased of
Penn, together with one brick dwelling, orchards and out-
houses.
(N. J. Arch., ist Series, Vol. XVI, p. 621, Salern
Deeds 6, p. 200.)
One year later he recites himself Garret \^enemy of
Gloucester County.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XVI, p. 627. Gush-
ing & Shephard Hist, of Glouc. Co., p. 31S.)
In 1702 he is named as Gerratt Van Imma, a bonds-
man in the estate of Joseph Braman of Great Mantua
Creek, Gloucester County.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Calendar of Wills, p. 58.)
On September ist, 1702, Andrew Robeson conveys to
him as Garrett Van Imma 1000 acres on "Clonmell's
Creek," Gloucester County. This creek has its source
near Clarksboro, N. J., and empties into the Delaware
River.
(Glouc. Deeds 3, p. 471, Trenton, N. J.)
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Garret Vaneman appears in the list of privates in
Captain Abraham Enloye's Company of MiHtia from
Penn's Neck in 1715, together with his brothers Henry
and John and the brother of John's vdfe, Martin Johnson
(or Giljohnson) (no doubt a brother of YeaHous Gil-
johnson, co-owner with Garret Vaneman of 300 acres
in Salem County).
(Records" of Adjt. Gen'l, Trenton, N. J., Col.
Period 16S3-1715, p. 22.)
On May 24th, 1717, Garret Vanneman divided the
1000 acres he had purchased from Robeson among his
sons John (the eldest), Dissaderas, David and Sam.uel.
In these deeds and subsequent ones from his sons, the
family name is variously written Van Imma, Van Jmon,
Venneman, Vanjml3^ Vanniman, Van Iman, Vanneyman
and Vanneman. In all the deeds, however, the relation-
ships and the fact of the purchase from Robeson is recited
with date and description of ground at Clonmell's Creek,
agreeing with the original recitals in the deed from Robe-
son to Garrett Van Imma.
(Deed Books Glouc. A., pp. 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 67;
Q., pp. 35, 49, 52, 53, 54; I-K, pp. 519. 523,
528; R., p. 128, Trenton, N. J.)
On December nth, 1724, in a deed by Samuel Van-
neman reciting the conveyance to him in 171 7 b\' his
father, Garrett, the grantor states his father is now de-
ceased. His death therefore occurred between 17 17 and
1724.
(Deed Book I-K, p. 523, Trenton, N. J.)
There is no record of the name of his wife, but we know
that the following were his sons:
Dissaderas, married Deborah Long 171 7, died between
1734-42, leaving issue.
David, married Mary Rambo 1722, died after 1730,
leaving issue.
Samuel, married Margaret - — — died 1733, leaving
issue, and
(175 H. of Wills. Trenton, N. J.)
(S3)
John (3), the eldest, who married Isabel Hendrickson,
daughter of Albert Hendrickson of Marcus Hook, prior
to the date of her father's will, January 5th, 17 14. (See
Hendrickson Family, p. 126.)
(Deed Book Glouc. A., p. 58.)
Jchn Vanneman (3) (or Van Imma) registered the
earmarks of his cattle at the County seat, Gloucester
County, in 1712,
(Gloucester Ear Mark Book p. 30, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
his father having already done this for himself in 1686.
He lived in Gloucester County until his death in 1744.
Isabella Vaneman and her sister, Elizabeth Bright, who
were referred to by their married names in the will of
their father, Albert Hendrickson,
(Chester County Wills, Vol. i^S, p. 8, Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
were both sponsors at the christening of Elizabeth,
daughter of John and Maria Bright at the church at
Sw^edesboro, Gloucester County, N. J., on August loth,
1729.
(Swedesboro Church Records, Vol. 1037, p. 119,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In his will, dated September 17th, 1744, and proved
November 2nd, 1744, John Vanneman recites himself as a
yeoman, of Greenwich Township, Gloucester County,
and gives his wife Isabel a life estate in his whole estate
during widowhood, with remainder to his sons Tobias
(named for his uncle, Tobias Hendrickson, of Marcus
Hook), Garrett (named for his grandfather, Garrett
Vanneman), and John. Garrett received 100 acres of
upland ground, being the plantation where the testator
lived, and John received 93 acres, being the plantation
which he (John, Jr.) then lived upon. A bequest was
also given to the testator's daughter, Martha, and a
shilling apiece to "the rest of my daughters" as "they
(84)
have had." The executors were "my son in law,"
¥/illiam Estlack, and John Bright.
(Will Book, Vol. 5, p. 84, Trenton, N. J.)
Of the children of John Vanneman, Sr. (3). we
know that John, Jr., gave a deed to Thomas Clark on
April 7th, 1767, reciting the devise to him under his
father's will, being part of 1000 acres Garret Vanne-
man (2), bought of Andrew Robeson by deed September
I St, 1702, and sold to his son, the grantor's father. The
deed also recites the obtaining by the grantor of a
quit claim deed, dated March 6th, 1767, from the
"daughters and co-parceners of Garret Vannem.an,"
(brother of John, Jr.) who died in 1761 leaving four
daughters.
(Deed Book A. H., p. 372, Trenton, N. J.)
Tobias Vanneman, another son of John Vanneman.
Sr., removed to Pennsylvania, where he married in 1744.
Garret (4) another son, was born and died in Glou-
cester County, where his name appears in 1728 as one of
the executors of the will of John Young, of Goucester
County. He is recited as Garret, son of John Vanjmma
(Vanneman).
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXIII, p. 529.)
Garret Vanneman (4) was married on October 30th,
1734, at the Swedesboro Church to Christian Denny,
daughter of Thomas Denny and Maria Justison. (See
Denny and Justicson Families, pp.106, 134.)
(Records of Church of Swedesboro, 1 715-1785.
Vol. I, in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc.)
Garret Vanneman was a man of property, as the
various conveyances to and by him in Gloucester County
show.
(Deed Books 0., pp. 37, 39, 47; K., p. 192,
Trenton, N. J.)
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In one made June 15th, 1759, in which his wife,
Christian, joined, he recites his plantation at Clonmell
Creek "where he now dwells."
(Deed Book P., p. 228, Trenton, N. J.)
He was commissioned a lieutenant in Captain Abraham
Nelson's Company and Colonel Nicholas Gibbons Salem
and Cumberland County Regiment of Foot, April 9th,
1748.
(Commissions of Col. Period, 1665-1775, p. 18;
Adjt. Gen'l Office, Trenton, N. J.)
He died in 1761 leaving a will dated September 7th,
1752, proved December i6th, 1761, in which he recited
himself as son of John of Gloucester, left a life estate to
his v/ife. Christian, and after her death to his four daughters
(unnamed) and makinghisbrother-in-law, Thomas Denny,
executor with William Mickle.
(Will Book II, p. 90, Trenton, N. J.)
Garret Vanneman and his wife were members of the
church at Piles Grove in 1747-49, and his sister Maria
Elizabeth was thev/ife of the Reverend Abraham Lidenius,
who married her in 1724.
(Acrelius History of New Sweden, Pa. Hist. Soc.
Memoirs, Vol. XI, pp. 325, 343, 440, 442, 443,
Records of Trinity Church, Wilmington.)
The Reverend John Lidenius, son of the pastor, upon
his arrival in America in 1 7 5 1 , lived with his uncle Garret
Vanneman.
(Clay's Annals of the Swedes, pp. 128, 129.
Barber & Howe Hist, of N. J., p. 430.)
Garret and Christian Vanneman had a daughter
Christian who was married to Thomas Clark by the
Reverend John Lidenius, her cousin, on April Sth, 1758.
She died January 17th, 181 7.
(Thomas Clark Journal and Bible Records. Copies
in Vol. 2552, pp. 52, 77, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Two daughters are thought to have been Sarah (who
married John Wright in 1762) and Rachel (who married
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John Middleton in 1 763). Mar>% the remaining daughter,
was born December 6th, 1738. One of the sponsors at
her christening was Jeffery Clark, Thomas Clark's father.
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. I, 1 715-1785,
in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc.)
Christian Vanneman (5), married Thomas Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 50.)
Their son, Jeffery Clark, Jr. (6), married Rachel
Weatherby.
(See Weatherby Family, p. 66.)
Their daughter. Christian Clark (7), married James
Reeves Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 28.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (8), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (9) , married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (10), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner ( 1 1 ) .
Morgan Stephens Reichner (n).
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SMITH FAMILY
OF
SMITHFIELD, SALEM GOLNTY
NEW JERSEY
SMITH FAMILY
John Smith (i), of Smithfield, Salem County, N. J.,
was the son of John Smith of County Norfolk, England,
and was born in Diss, yth month 20th, 1623. He was an
English Quaker and about 1658 married Martha Crafts,
daughter of Christopher Crafts of Worksop in Notting-
hamshire. When Major John Fenwick was preparing
to sail for the New World he sold John Smith a large
tract of ground in Salem County.
(Pa. Arch., 1664-1747, p. 57.)
In 1675 he came to West Jersey, accompanied by his
wife and four children. He arrived with John Fenwick
in the ship "GrifBn."
(Salem Meeting Records, Vol. loio, pp. 3, 4,
Gen. Soc. of Pa. N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXI,
P- 339-)
In September, 1676 and 1679, Fenwick, the Proprietor,
deeded to him two town lots aggregating twenty-two
acres, in Salem, N. J., near the present dock.
(Fenwick's Surveys, i, p. i. Town Grants i,
pp. 3, 5. Salem Surveys i, p. 18. Doc. of Col.
Hist., N. Y., Vol. XII, p. 608.)
These lots John Smith sold to Sarah Cannon June 4th,
1683.
(Salem Deeds 2, p. 137. Calendar N. J. Rec,
P- 576.)
Two months later John Fenwick made John Smith one
of the executors of his will, together with Wilham Penn,
Samuel Hedge and Richard Tindall. To each of these
executors Fenwick devised 500 acres for their services.
(N. J. Arch., Vol. i, pp. 507-8. N. J. Cal. of
Wills, p. 162. Cal. of N. J. Records, p. 569).
On December i6th, 1701, John Smith conveyed 200
acres of this devise to his son Jonathan and the remain-
(90)
ing 300 acres to his son Jeremiah. Smithfield, the plan-
tation of John Smith, was on Monmouth River, other-
wise known as Alloways Creek.
(N. J. Arch., Vol. XXI, pp. 630, 642.)
John Smith had many large holdings of land, and made
many conveyances to his sons and others.
(N. J. Arch., Vol. XXI, pp. 621, 599, 596, 604.)
One-half of Smithfield he gave, on December 20th, 1692,
to his eldest son, Daniel, the other to become his after his
parents' decease.
John Smith of Smithfield was a signer to the "First
Agreement for the Settlement of West New Jersey" —
between John Fenwick and the settlers, April 25th, 1676,
and to the Concessions and Agreements of West Jersey,
3 March, 1676-7,
(N. J. Arch., Vol. i, pp. 225-7, 241-268.)
and was a mem-ber of the Assembly of West Jersey in
1682, 1684, 1685.
(Leaming & Spicer Laws of West Jersey, pp. 443,
490, 498.)
He was a man of unusual ability and possessed of
more than ordinary tact. "When John Fenwick the
Proprietor named as his executors William Penn, Samuel
Hedge his son-in-law, Richard Tindall, his Surveyor
General and John Smith of Smithfield, he surely
selected the men in his judgment best equipped in
their various capacities to perform the important
duties committed to them * * * John Smith of
Smithfield, a man from age, wealth and experience, if not
facile princeps was at least the peer of any one in the
community."
(Paper by Dr. S. S. Sharpe, President of Salem
Co. Historical Society, Dec. 9th, 1903. N. J.
Arch., Vol. XXI, p. 341, foot note. Vol. 2552,
p. 67, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
There seems to be no record evidence as to the date of
death of either John Smith or his wife, Martha. The
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former was probably living on April 7th, 1707. The
latter September 29th, 1693.
(N. J. Arch., Vol. XXI, p. 643.)
Their children were :
Daniel Smith, born in England February loth, 1660,
married, had issue.
(Minutes English Meetings — Mansfield I\Ieeting,
Vol. 887, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Samuel Smith, born in England May 8th, 1664, mar-
ried, had issue.
David Smith, born in England February 19th, 1666,
died at Salem before Febraary 2nd, 1694/5. His will of
December 3rd, 1694, named daughter Sarah as under age;
refers to tract of 400 acres called Smithfield, fronting
Alloways Creek, and his brothers Jeremiah, Jonathan and
David.
Sarah Smith, born in England February 4th, 1671.
Jonathan Smith (2), born in New Salem, West Jer-
sey, December 27th, 1675, married, had issue.
Jeremiah Smith, born in New Salem, November 14th,
1676, died there in October, 1735.
(Salem Meeting Records, Vol. loio, pp. 3, 4, Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
Daniel Smith, eldest son of John Smith of Smithfield.
was born in Worksop, County Notts, England, on
February loth, 1660, and died in Salem, N. J., in 17 16.
On March 27th, 1699, he married a widow, Dorcas J+* ^'^-^
Burrell. (Vol. 1013, pp. 267, 268, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Their daughter Temperance Smith m_arried Edward ■
Quinton, son of Tobias and Elizabeth Ouinton. (See
Quinton Family, p. i-ii.)
(Shourd's History of Fen wick Colony, p. 225.)^
Jonathan Smith (2), son of John Smith of Smithfield,
was born in Salem County, West Jersey, December 27th.
1675, died at Alloways Creek in April, 1726. Under
date of December i6th, 1701, he received from his father,
John Smith of Smithfield, "gentleman," two hundred
acres of land situated near Monmouth River.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXI, p. 631.)
By deed of July 27th, 171 7, Jonathan Smith of Allo-
ways Creek and Mary his wife conveyed lands in Salem
County to William Powell. The indenture recited the
deed from John Fen wick, sole proprietor of Salem Tenth,
April 13th, 1675, to John Smith and Martha his wife of
one thousand acres, and conveyance by John Smith and
Martha his wife to their son David Smith of four hundred
acres, and gift by David Smith under will dated De-
cember 3rd, 1692, to his brothers Jonathan Smith and
Jeremiah Smith, and conveyance by Jeremiah Smith as
owner of half of the four hundred acres on May ist,
1 715, to Jonathan Smith, who conveys to William Powell
seventy-nine acres of said tract lying back of Jonathan
Smith's land "upon which he now lives."
(Deed Book A. i, pp. 182-5, Secretary of State's
Office, Trenton, N. J.)
In his will dated April 7th, 1726, proved May 3rd, 1726,
(Will Book 2, p. 355, Secretary of State's Office, Trenton,
N. J.), Jonathan Smith names his wife Mary and his
sons Jonathan, James (3), and Isaac, giving to James
the 100 acre plantation whereon the testator lived.
Legacies were also given to the testator's daughters
Elizabeth (married - — ■ — Condon), Edith, Martha and
Deborah. His sons Jonathan and James were appointed
executors.
(Salem County Probate Files No. 787, Will
Book 2, p. 355, Sect'y of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
Jonathan Smith and Rayns White declared their in-
tention of marriage before the Salem Meeting of Friends,
"their fathers being present," March 25th, 1700. She
did not long survive, but was no doubt the mother of
Elizabeth (Smith) Condon.
On December 27th, 1708, Jonathan Smith declared his
intention of marriage with Mary Quinton, and the mar-
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riage was reported "as accomplished" February 28th,
1708. (See Quinton Family, p. 112.)
(Records of Salem JMonthly Meeting, Men's
Minutes, 1 676-1 740, Vol. 1018, p. 55, Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
Jonathan Smith served as a private in 17 15 in Captain
Daniel Rumsey's Company, Salem County Militia.
(Index Col. Period, 1683-1715, p. 20, Adjt. Gen'l
Office, Trenton, N. J.)
Their children were, Jonathan born about 1709, died
1762 (Will Q. 1282, Trenton, N. J.); James (3) born
about 1 71 2, died about 1779; Isaac; Elizabeth, married
Condon before 1726; Edith, Martha and Deborah.
James Smith (3), son of Jonathan Smith, was born at
Alloways Creek about 171 2. He is the only James
Smith known in Salem between 1726 and 1779. (R. P.,
Vol. I, pp. 71, 154, 155). He married (i) Rachel Quinton,
daughter of Edward and Temperance Quinton. (See
Quinton Family, p. 112.)
(See reference to James Smith and Rachel Quinton
as father and mother of John and James Smith,
Vol. 2552, pp. 72, 73, and Pine and Orange
Meeting Records at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
They had the following children:
Benjamin, married , issue Joshua and Powell.
Prudence, married — ■ Robinson, issue James,
Joseph and John.
John, born February 23rd, 1748, died December 5th,
1810, married (i) Margaret Paul, (2) Temperance Keasby,
died 1826, issue Rebecca, Hannah, Rachel, Edward,
John K. and Howell.
James, married (i) Ann Ridgeway, (2) Hannah Pan-
coast, (3) Hannah Logan Fisher, issue Esther F., Sarah
F., Rebecca D., Jacob R., Charles W., James B. and
Ann Rotch.
Edith (4), born 1751, married Benjamin Weatherby
1772, died 1820.
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After the death of Rachel, his wife, James Smith mar-
ried Isabella (Dunlap) Redstreak, a widow, by license of
February 21st, 1771.
From this marriage were born:
Edward, married Sarah Maskell, had issue.
Jonathan.
Mar}^ born 1779, married Bacon.
After the death of James Smith, Isabella, his wife,
married Reverend Peter Van Horn.
(Salem Meeting Records, N. J. Arch. XX, pp.
596, 599. Will Book B, p. 528, Trenton, N. J.)
James Smith died in 1779, leaving a will dated August
14th, 1778, proved July 13th, 1779. In this will he
names his wife Isabella, directs a sale of his lands and
division of proceeds among his sons Benjamin, John,
James, Edward, Jonathan and his daughter Prudence.
His daughter Edith Weatherby "having been already
provided for."
John Smith, son of James, was sheriff of Salem County -
in 1780, his brothers Jam_es and Benjamin being on his
bond.
(Deed Book 17 15-1797, p. 410, Salem, N. J.)
Upon his death he appointed his brother James Smith
"of Philadelphia," guardian of his minor children. In
his will he speaks of the "homestead place." This was
his father's plantation.
(Will Book A., p. 378, Salem, N. J.)
His heirs in 1812 sold 116 acres on Upper Alloways
Creek near Quinton's Bridge. This was part of the
acreage owned by James Smith, his father, in which
Edith, his sister, had an interest. This latter interest was
conveyed by Edith and her husband, Benjamin
Weatherby, to John Smith.
(Deed Book P., p. 82, Salem, N. J.)
John Smith's birth and death are recorded in the Smith
Bible, and it is stated therein that he was the son of
James Smith and Rachel Quinton.
(Vol. 2552, p. 73, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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James Smith, son of James Smith and Rachel Quinton,
is so styled in the record of his marriage to Hannah
Logan Fisher in 1810.
(Records of Pine and Orange Meeting, Phila., at
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
He was a partner of his brother-in-law, Jacob Ridgway,
in business in Philadelphia. (Deed Book I, p. 36, Wood-
bury, N. J.) In his will he mentions his niece Ann
Weatherby, his niece Hannah Stephens (nee Hannah
Weatherby) and Hannah Smith, daughter of his brother
John.
(Phila. Will Book 8, p. 596.)
Ann Weatherby and Hannah Weatherby Stephens,
wife of Isaac Stephens, were the children of his sister
Edith Smith, wife of Benjamin Weatherby.
Edith Weatherby (4), daughter of James Smith and
Rachel Quinton, was born at Allovv-ays Creek, Salem
County, N. J., in 1751, and died September 20th, i-&5o,
at Trenton, N. J. /^z-^
(The Federalist of September 25th, 1820, 3rd page,
3rd column, State Library, Trenton, N. J.)
She married Benjamin Weatherby, son of William
Weatherby (see Weatherby Family, p. 63), under license
of February 6th, 1772.
(Marriage License Book W, 1 766-1 772, Secty. of
State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
Their daughter, Rachel Weatherby (5), married Jeffery
Clark, Jr.
(See Clark Family, p. 53.)
Their daughter, Christian Clark (6), married James
Reeves Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 28.)
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Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (7), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Famil}-, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (S), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (9), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (10), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan S. Reichner (10), born August 29th, 1905.
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BULL FAMILY
OF
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
BULL FAMILY
Thomas Bull (i) emigrated from England to America
prior to 1677. On August 29th, 1677, he purchased a
one-eighth share of the Proprietary of West Jersey from
Byllynge.
(N. J. Arch., Cal. of N. J. Records, p. 679. Deed
Books D. D., p. 203; Glouc. 3, p. 395, Trenton,
N.J.)
On October ist, 1686, Anthony Morris, of Philadel-
phia, "baker," sold to Thomas Bull, of Philadelphia,
"gentleman," lands in Gloucester County, N. J.
(Deed Book A. A. A., p. 145, Trenton, N. J.)
Thomas Bull was a juryman under the first Court
under the Constitution of Arwames held in September,
1686, in Gloucester County.
(Mickle Reminiscences of Old Gloucester, p. 39.)
Thomas Bull died in 1686, and administration was
granted to his widow, Sarah. The inventory of his
estate shows that he was possessed of a house in Phila-
delphia, 200 acres of ground in Gloucester County, and
two town lots in Gloucester.
(N. J. Arch., Vol. XXIII, Abstracts of Wills,
Vol. I, pp. 72, 73.)
They had four children, viz. : Anne (who died in her
minority), Thomas (2), Richard and Sarah.
On March i8th, 1695, Thomas (2), Richard and Sarah
Bull joined in a deed to Thomas Gibson of a part of their
father's land in Gloucester County.
(Deed Book Glouc. 3, p. 327, Trenton, N. J.)
On December ist, 1701, they sold another portion to
George Brown, "alias Ward."
(Deed Book Glouc. 3, p. 395, Trenton, N. J.)
Sarah married Green.
(Will of Thomas Bull (2), N. J. Arch., Vol. XXIII,
Abstracts of Wills, Vol. I, p. 73.)
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Richard, who was WilHam Penn's surveyor, 1 712-16,
married Sarah and died in 1722, intestate. Ad-
ministration being granted to his widow Sarah, Thomas
Bull, his brother, and "heir apparent assenting."
(Deed Books R, p. no; S., pp. 241, 243; G. G.,
p. 19, Trenton, N. J. N. J. Arch., Vol. XXIII.
Abstracts of Wills, Vol. I, p. 72. Deed Book
A., p. 129, Woodbury, N. J.)
Thomas Bull (2), son of Thomas Bull (i), on June Sth,
1698, purchased 250 acres at Upton on the Gloucester
River from Isaac Pearson.
(N. J. Arch., Cal. N. J. Records, p. 683.)
He married Hannah . In his will of October
13th, 1722, he is styled "gentleman" and mention is
made of his wife, Hannah, his son Thomas (3) of Pyre
Hill, County of Stafford, England, and his sister, Sarah
Green.
His executors were Nathaniel Tylee and Amos Asshead.
(N. J. Arch., Vol. XXIII, Abstracts of Wills,
Vol. I, p. 73-)
Thomas Bull (3) came to Gloucester County prior to
1700, as on April 12th, 1700, he purchased from William
Dalbo 245 acres on Little Mantua Creek, Gloucester
County, N. J.
(Deed Book Z, p. 115, Trenton, N. J.)
On August 29th, 1705, he is recited as "gentleman,"
late of P3Te Hill, County of Stafford, England, now of
Gloucester County, New Jersey, in his deed to Richard
Bull conveying two houses in P^^re Hill, payment to be
made at the "new dwelling house of John Crouch in
Crown Court in Gracious Street, London."
(Deed Book A. A. A., p. 147, Trenton, N. J.)
Thomas Bull died April 12th, 1731, intestate.
(Original Records, Church at Swedesboro, Vol. I,
1715 to 1785, in safe at Hist. vSoc. of Pa.)
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He left three daughters him surviving, Dorothy, Mary
and Sarah (4).
(Deed Book A. H., p. 261, Trenton, N. J.)
Dorothy married Bryant Connelly July 27th, 1731.
Mary married John Fish in 1729.
Sarah (4) married Jonas Cox.
(Deed Book Z, pp. 115, 119, Trenton, N. J.
Deed Book B, p. 307, Woodbury, N. J.)
Sarah Bull (4) married Jonas Cox.
(See Cox Family, p. 73.)
Their daughter, Mary Cox (5), married Arthur
Reeves.
(See Reeves Family, p. 59.)
Their daughter, Sarah Reeves (6), married James
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 26.)
Their son, James Reeves Stephens (^7), married
Christian Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 54.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (8), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39-)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (9), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (10), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (11).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (11).
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DExNNY FAMILY
OF
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
DENNY FAMILY
Thomas Denny (i) was listed as a taxable at Alarcus
Hook in 1677.
(Rec. Upland Court, p. 85.)
He also was a defendant in the suit of Henry Ward on
November 2nd, 1676.
(Ibid., p. 55.)
He was a member of the English Colony on the West
bank of the Delaware River, and was probably the
father of Thomas (2) and Frederick Denny.
Frederick Denny married Ellenor about 1712,
had issue, died prior to 1737.
(Swedesboro Church Records, Vol. 1037, pp. 69,
55, no, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Deed Book E., p. 313,
Trenton, N. J.)
Thomas Denny (2) is first mentioned in Gloucester
County, N. J., prior to 1700, in the Ear Mark Book of
said County at Woodbury, N. J.
(Gloucester County Ear Mark Book, p. 10, Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
He married Maria Justicson, daughter of Nicholas
Justicson (Nils Gustaffson), (see Justicson Family, p.
134) about 1712, and on March 21st, 1720, his father-in-law
deeded to him a plantation of 100 acres in Greenwich
Township, Gloucester County. The consideration being
"for ye love he hath and bareth to ye said Thomas
Denny." The plantation is described as the plantation
"the said Thomas Denny liveth upon."
(Deed Book Gloucester A., p. 198, Trenton, N. J.)
On March nth, 1728, Mathias Matson granted Thomas
Denny 50 acres of a hemp flat between Raccoon and
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Oldman's Creek, and on May 30th, 1729, Jacobus Van
Culin deeded him 50 acres additional land on the hemp
flat on Church Run, a branch of Raccoon Creek.
(Deed Books Glouc. C, pp. 75, 78; A. F., p. 311,
Trenton, N. J.)
Thomas Denny died intestate in 1744, and his eldest
son, Thomas, became administrator of the estate on
November 13th, 1744.
(298 H. of Wills, Trenton, N. J.)
Thomas and Maria Denny had the following children:
Christina (3), born Januar^^ 26th, 1713, married
Garret Vanneman 1734.
(Swedesboro Church Records, Vol. 1037, p. 56,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Catherine, born June nth, 1714.
(Ibid., p. 60.)
Maria, born February 15th, 17 16.
(Ibid., p. 66.)
Elizabeth, born September 9th, 17 17.
(Ibid., p. 71.)
Gunnilla, born December i8th, 17 19.
(Ibid., p. 71.)
Thomas, born October i6th, 1721, married Eliza-
beth Rambo 1745, died 1797, was a surveyor and
Sherifif of Gloucester County. Owned considerable real
estate.
(Deed Books Y., p. 480; A. X., p. 82; A. N., p.
249; A. F., p. 311; A. E., p. 400; W., pp. 167,
168, 170, 243, Glouces. C., p. 143, Trenton,
N. J. Swedesboro Church Records, Vol. 1037,
pp. 86, 135, 191, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Helena, born November 2nd, 1723.
(Swedesboro Church Records, Vol. 1037, p. 94,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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John, born January 20th, 1726, married Sarah Hend-
rickson, had issue, died in 1768.
(Deed Book A. F., p. 311. Will Book 13, p. 485,
Trenton, N. J. Swedesboro Church Records,
Vol. 1037, pp. 103, no, 192, 368, Gen. Soc,
of Pa.)
Samuel, born March nth, 1731, died April i8th, 1731.
(Swedesboro Church Records, Vol. 1037, pp. 362,
125, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Deborah, born March nth, 1731, married Thomas
Clark, of Salem.
(Ibid., 125, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Original Swedesboro
Church Records, Vol. I, 17 15-1785 in safe at
Pa. Hist. Soc.)
Christina Denny (3) eldest child of Thomas and Maria
Denny, was born near Swedesboro, N. J., on January
26th, 1 7 13, and baptized at the Old Swedesboro Church
on May i6th, 1713.
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. 1037, p. 56,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
She was married at the same church on October 30th,
1734, to Garret Vanneman, son of John and Isabel Vanne-
man. (See Vanneman Family, p. 85.)
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. i, 1715-
1785, in safe at Pa. Hist. Soc, and Vol. 2552,
p. 54, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Their daughter. Christian (4), on April 8th, 1758,
married Thomas Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 50.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark, Jr. (5), married Rachel
Weatherby.
(See Weatherby Family, p. 66.)
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Their daughter, Christian Clark (6), married James
Reeves Stephens.
(vSee Stephens Family, p. 28.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (7), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (8), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (9), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons : •
Aiken Reichner (10), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (10), born August 29th,
1905- .
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QUINTON FAMILY
OF
SALEM COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
QUINTON FAMILY
Tobias Quinton (i) (Quainton, Quintane) emigrated
from England, and was first mentioned as of Salem
County, N. J., in a deed of James Nevill on October 13th,
1684, when Nevill grants him 16 acres on Xevill Street.
Salem Town.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXI. p. 577.)
This lot Quinton sold to William Rumsey on August
20th, 1689.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXI. p. 592.)
On September 15th, 1685, Quinton contracted to work
for Roger Milton, at the Mill "until either part}' dislikes
each other" at 3 shillings a day and "for the sure pay-
ment of somuch as shalbe due to ye sd. Tobias" at the
time he shall leave the work. Roger to convey to him 200
acres at Alio ways Creek.
(Salem Survevs, No. 2, N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol.
XXI, p. 55I-)
This land is where the village of Quinton, X^ J., now
stands.
On August 8th, 1687, Marcus Ellegar sold him 55 acres
on the south side of Monmouth River (Alloways Creek),
and on the same da}" John Test sold him 100 acres ad-
joining preceding lot.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser.. Vol. XXI, p. 584.)
On January 30th, 1692, William Surridge sold him 100
acres on Alloways Creek, and on December 28th, 1694,
a like sale with "houses, orchards, etc."
In 1703 a deed from Killingworth to Vane describes a
lot in Salem Town as contiguous to Tobias Quinton's lot.
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXI, pp. 600, 607, 642.)
Tobias Quinton died at Salem in 1700, leaving a will
dated October i6th, 1700, and proved December i6th.
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I700, where he recited his wife "EHzabeth" (who after-
ward married Samuel Fogge, Jr.).
(Salem Wills, III, p. 70. N- J- Arch., ist Ser.,
Vol. XXIII, p. 376.J
We know the following children survived him:
Mary (married Jonathan Smith in 170S, had issue;,
Susanna, Elizabeth, John (married, had issue, died 1721,
Will 197 Q., Trenton, N. J.), Edward (born 1696, married
Temperance Smith, had issue, died 1756), Sarah (mar-
ried Cornelius Copner).
(Deed Book 1 715-1797, p. 381, County Clerk's
Office, Salem, N. J.)
The deed above referred to recites Tobias Quinton's
devise by will of October i6th, 1700, of 500 acres at
Alloways Creek to his wife, Elizabeth, her marriage to
Samuel Fogg, their release of the tract to the above-
named children of Tobias Quinton, sale by said children
on October 12th, 171 7. to Edward Quinton, and succeed-
ing conveyances. This deed was witnessed April 20th,
1765, by James and Benjamin Smith (sons of James
Smith).
(See also Deed Book W. P., 405, Trenton, N. J.)
Edward Quinton (2), son of Tobias and Ehzabeth
Quinton, was born in Salem County, September 15th.
1696, and died intestate March 26th, 1756.
(Will Book 8, 1 754-1 758, p. 303, Trenton, N. J.)
His wife was Temperance Smith, daughter of Daniel
Smith and Dorcas Burrell. (See Smith Famih', p. 92.)
She was born in 1700 and died January 8th, 1775.
(Tombstones at Old Mill Hollow Church, Salem,
N. J. Lee's Genealogical Hist, of N. J., Vol. I, p.
328. Shourd's History of Fenwick Colony, pp.
122-123. Cushing and Sheppard Hist., pp. 320,
394. 472.)
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Mary, sister of Edward Quinton, on December 27th,
1708, married Jonathan Smith, son of John Smith of
Smithfield, and had issue. (See Smith Family, p. 94.)
(Salem Meeting Records, Vol. loiS, p. 55, Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
Edward Quinton had the following children :
Prudence, who married Edward Keasby October 8th,
1746.
Sarah, who married Edward Keasby May 4th, 1765.
(N. J. Arch., 2nd Scr., Vol. i, p. 312.)
Rachel, who married James Smith.
Elizabeth, who married James Talbot April 9th, 1760,
and
Phoebe, who married Edmund Weatherby May 5th,
1775-
Edward and Temperance Smith, together with her
father, Daniel Smith, were instrumental in founding the
Old Mill Hollow Baptist Church at Salem, N. J.
(Shourd's Hist, of Fenwick Colony, p. 409. Deed
Book 1715-1797, p. 325, Salem, N. J.)
Edw^ard Quinton was a private on the muster roll of
1 715 in Captain Daniel Rumsey's Company, Salem
County Militia. His brother-in-law, Jonathan Smith,
being a private in the same Company.
(Adjt. Gen. Office, Trenton, Index Col. Period,
1683-1715, p. 20).
Rachel Quinton (3), daughter of Edward and Tem-
perance Quinton, married her cousin, James Smith, son of
Jonathan Smith and Mary Quinton. She died prior to
^m- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Their daughter, Edith Smith (4), married Benjamin
Weatherby.
(See Weatherby Family, p. 63.)
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Their daughter, Rachel Weatherby (5), married Jeffery
Clark, Jr.
(See Clark Family, p. 53.)
Their daughter, Christian Clark (6), married James
Reeves Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 28.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (7), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (8), married
Louis Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son. Louis Irving Reichner (9), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (10), born June 4th. 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (10), born August 29th,
1905.
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LUBBERTSEN AND GROESBEGK
FAMILIES
OB^
NEW YORK
LUBBERTSEN FAMILY
Frederick Lubbertsen (i), aged about 19 years, arrived
in the New Netherlands by the ship "Orangetree" in
the year 1625.
(N. Y. Enghsh MSS., Vol. LXIX, p. 2, at Albany.)
In 1639 Frederick Lubbertsen was boatswain on the
Island of Manhattan, and in 1640 he received a patent
of land on Long Island.
(Dutch MSS., Vol. I, p. 95.)
In August, 1 64 1, Frederick Lubbertsen was one of the
"Twelve Men" representing Manhattan, Brooklyn and
Pavonia ( Jersey Cit}').
(N. Y. Civil List, 1878, p. 6.)
This was the first legislative body in New York and
New Jersey.
On December loth, 1653, he was representative from
Brooklyn to a convention held in New Amsterdam to
represent the state of the country to the authorities in
Holland.
(Register of New Netherlands, p. 143.)
In 1653-55, 1664 and 1673 he was a Magistrate from
Brooklyn.
(Ibid., pp. 73, 75.)
On July 6th, 1663, he Vv'as representative from Brook-
lyn to a convention organized by Governor Nicholls and
held at Hempstead.
(N. Y. Civil List, p. 24.)
This was the first Assembly under the English.
Frederick Lubbertsen married (i) Styntje Jansen and
by her had one child, Rebecca Fredericks (2). As was
the Dutch fashion Rebecca took as a surname the
Christian name of her father.
(Gen. Notes of N. Y. & New Eng. Families, by
Talcott, p. 86.)
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Rebecca Fredericks (2), on October 19th, 1648, mar-
ried Jacob Leendersten Van der Grift, who was in the
service of the West India Company at New Amsterdam,
September nth, 1648.
(Ref. Dutch Records, N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Soc.
Collection, Vol. I, p. 14.)
On April 9th, 1664, they were accepted as members of
the Church at Brooklyn, Long Island.
Rebecca Van der Grift survived her husband, and was
living in Bensalem, Bucks County, in 17 10.
Their children were :
Marytje V., married Cornelius Corson.
Christina, married (i) Cornelius Jacobson, (2) Daniel
Veenous.
Anna (3), married Jacob Claesszen Groesbeck.
Leendert, married Styntje Elsenwoers.
Nicholas, married Barentje Verkerk.
Frederick, married .
Rachel, married Barent Johnson Verkerk.
Johannes, married Neltie Volkers.
Anna Vandergrift (3), on September 29th, 1674, mar-
ried Jacob Classzen Groesbeck. (See Groesbeck Family,
p. 119.)
(Coll. of N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Soc, Vol. I, p. 39.
Vol. 2552, p. 64, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Their daughter, Rachel (4), was baptized November
2ist, 1682, and on November 8th, 1702, married Thomas
Biddle.
(See Biddle Family, p. 136.)
Their daughter, Sarah Biddle (5), married Thomas
Reeves.
(See Reeves Family, p. 59.)
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Their son, Arthur Reeves (6), married Mary Cox.
(See Cox Family, p. 74.)
Their daughter, Sarah Reeves (7), married James
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 26.)
Their son, James Reeves Stephens (8), married
Christian Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 54.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (9), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (10), married
Louis Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (11), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
The}' have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (12).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (12).
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GRQESBEGK FAMILY
Nicholas (Claes) Jacobse Groesbeck (i), carpenter,
was in Albany, N. Y., in 1662. On October loth, 1696,
he deposed that he was 72 years old. He had a wife
Elizabeth. His will dated January 3rd, 1706, mentions
among others a son Jacob (2).
Jacob Classzen Groesbeck (2) was born in Amsterdam,
on September 29th, 1674. He married Anna Vander-
grift in the Reformed Dutch Church.
(Collections of N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Soc, Vol. I,
P- 39-)
They were witnesses at the baptism of Rebecca,
daughter of Daniel Veenos and Christina Jacobs on
April 13th, 1690. In 1697 Leonard, Nicholas, Frederick
and Johannes Vandergrift, Barent Verkirk (who had
married their sister Rachel) and Jacob Claesszen Groes-
beck, purchased adjoining lands in Bucks County, Penn-
sylvania. Whether Groesbeck settled on this land is not
known, but no record of his will or administration is
to be found in the Bucks County records. His children
were :
Rebecca, baptized June 23rd, 1675.
Elizabeth, baptized September 4th, 1677.
Dina (Leah), baptized February nth, 1680, married
Johannes Vansant in 1702.
Rachel, baptized November 21st, 1682, married Thomas
Biddle in 1702.
Johanna, baptized August 9th, 1685.
(N. Y. Gen. & Biog. Soc, Vol. H, pp. 119, 129,
141, 156, 169. Vol. 2552, p. 64, Gen. Soc. of
Pa.)
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Rachel Groesbeck (3) married Thomas Biddle at the
First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, November
8th, 1702.
Their daughter, Sarah Biddle (4), married Thomas
Reeves.
(See Reeves Family, p. 59.)
Their son, Arthur Reeves (5), married Mary Cox.
(See Cox Family, p. 74.)
Their daughter, Sarah Reeves (6), married James
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 26.)
Their son, James Reeves Stephens (7), married Christian
Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 54.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (8), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (9) , married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (10), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (11).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (11).
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HENDRICKSON FAMILY
OF
CHESTER COUNTY, PENNA.
HENDRICKSON FAMILY
Albert Hendrickson (i) is said to have been one of
the Dutch settlers on the Delaware River, and received a
patent for 500 acres below the town of Chester, Pa., from
Governor Lovelace in 1673. This patent was confirmed
May 12th, 1702, by the Commissioners at Philadelphia.
(Gen. Soc. of Pa. Pubhcations, Vol. IV, March,
191 1, No. 3, p. 289. Pa. Arch., 2nd vSer., Vol.
XIX, pp. 266, 271, 307.)
His name appears on the list of inhabitants fined for
assisting "The Long Ffin" Rebellion in 1669. (See
Justicson Family, p. 130.)
(Doc. CoL Hist. N. Y., Vol. XII, pp. 470, 471.)
Albert Hendrix (or Hendrickson) appears on the list of
"tydable" (taxable) persons at Marrietties Kill (Marcus
Hook, Pa.), in 1677.
(Martin's History of Chester, p. 95.)
On September 25th, 1676, under the instructions of
Governor Andross, it was ordered "that a Constable bee
yearly in Each place chosen for the preservation of his
■[yjg^yties Pea^ce w^*" all other powers as directed by
Lawe" and Albert Hendrix was chosen the first Constable
in Pennsylvania.
(Record of Upland Court, p. 40, Pa. Hist. Soc.
Pa. Arch., 2nd Ser., Vol. IX, p. 615.)
In September, 1677, one year after the passage of the
above law, he presented a petition to the Court at Upland,
and an order was made as follows: "Albert Hendricx
the Constable desiering of the Co'"'' to be dismist of
his Constables place (hee having served out his yeare).
The Co""*" have nominated and appointed William
Orian Constable for the jurisdiction of this Co""' for
the Roome of the s*^ Albert; and was sworn accordingly."
(Record of Upland Court, p. 57, Martins History
of Chester, pp. 23, 516.)
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On June 13th, 1677, Albert Hendricx was a plaintiff
in a suit against Andreas Bertels, in which he ''Com-
plains against the def' for haveing killed with a gun a
certain -boare of this p''^^ The def" says that the boar
hath used about his land 6 Yeares and y*" the s'^ boare
was so cruell that no man could passe w*^ out danger
of being hurt by the s"^ Boare and that their Childeren
were lykevyse In danger." After several of the neighbors
were examined the Court made the following remarkable
order "that the def shall pay '^""^'^ the boare to ye p"
and pay Lykewyse halfe ye charges and ye PP the other
halfe."
(Records of Upland Court, pp. 50, 59.)
In 1677 Albert Hendrix applied to the Court at Upland
to take 200 acres of land between Caleb's Creek and
the ' ' Pvn ' ' tree — which was granted.
(Ibid., p. 72.)
In 167S he was appointed by the Court an appraiser
of the wheat and tobacco crops of Christopher Barnes, a
debtor under judgment, and also in a like proceeding
set a value of 170 guilders upon a "cowe" of Will. Orian
(his successor as Constable), who seems to have fallen
upon hard times.
(Ibid., pp. 98, loi.)
On jXIarch 13th, 1678-9 James Justassen conveyed to
Albert Hendriks the land he had received in 1673 under
patent of Governor Lovelace, below Upland and between
Harwikes Creek and Middle Creek (now Stony Run).
This land on November 25th, 1679, Albert Hendrix con-
veyed to Oele Eriksen. (See Justicson Family, p. 131.)
(Ibid., pp. 136, 152.)
Again on November 25th, 1679, Albert Hendricks made
a deed to John Test of Upland of 40 acres of land at the
head of Upland Creek beginning at Robert Wade's
marked beech tree, being part of a greater tract conveyed
by patent to Albert Hendricks from the Governor and
called "Lamoco."
(Ibid., pp. 149, 150.)
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On Holmes Map of 16S4 Holbert (Albert) Hendrickson
appears as an owner of land below Chester Creek.
At a council on the 27th 12 mo. 1683, William Penn,
Proprietor and Governor, in charge, a jury was impanelled
to try Margarit Matson on charge of being a witch. On
this jury Albertus Hendrickson served. The account of
the trial is most interesting, as the defendant pleaded
not guilty, "saying that ye witnesses speak only by
hearsay, after which ye Governor (William Penn) gave
the jury their charge concerning ye prisoner at ye barr."
The jury went forth and upon their return brought her
in guilty "of having the common fame of a witch but
not guilty in manner and form as she stands indicted."
Her husband, Neels Matson, entered into bond of 50
pounds for her good behavior for six months.
(Penna. Col. Records, Vol. I, p. 95.)
Albert Hendrickson, as a freeholder and elector, signed
the certificate of election of William Howell as a member
of Council in Chester County, Pa., on April 22nd, 1690.
(Pa. Arch. 1 664-1 747, pp. 115, 116.)
The will of John Bristow, Township of Chester, Pa.,
edge toolmaker, signed 6 mo. 27th, 1694, proved Decem-
ber 15th, 1695, at Philadelphia, devised as follows:
"Also tract of land called Crysells, purchased of
Albert Hendrickson."
(Phila. Will Book A, p. 283.)
On March 28th, 1685, Albert Hendrickson agreed to
buy from William Fleetwood for 20 pounds 400 acres
of ground in Salem County, New Jersey, the price to be
paid "ye next spring in wheat and cattle, a Cow and
Calfe at 5 pounds and wheat at ye river price."
(Salem Surveys No. 2, p. 23.)
We find the name of Albert Henrickson carried on the
Militia list of 17 15 as a private in Company commanded
by Captain Enloye of Penn's Neck, Salem County, New
Jersey.
(Records N. J. Adjt. Gen'l Office, Trenton, N. J.,
Col. Period 1683-1715, p. 22.)
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We do not know when Albert Hendrickscn married,
and as he makes no mention of his wife in his will, it is
safe to conclude that she predeceased him. His will
dated January 5th, 1714, and proved June 20th, 1715-16
gives his whole estate to his son Tobias subject to the
payment by him of legacies to his brothers, the other
sons of the testator, Albertus, James, Johannes, and
their sisters Elizabeth (Bright), Isabel (Vanneman), and
Kate, and to Albertus Steer and Helchen Henrixon,
grandchildren of the testator. His son Tobias and
neighbor John Salkeld were the executors.
(Chester Co. Wills, Vol. 155, p. 8, also see Vol.
2553. P- 183, both at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
John Salkeld, the co-executor of Albert Hendrickson's
will, speaks in his will of 1739 of "20 acres recently bought
of Tobias Hendrickson."
Of the above-named children Tobias married, and
his children were:
Henry, born 1704, and
Helsha, born 1705.
(St. Paul's Church Records Vol. 600, p. 32, Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
He was vestryman of St. Paul's Church, Chester, from
1715 to 1719, and warden in 1720. It was from Tobias
Hendrickson and John, his brother, that certain members
of the Episcopal Church bought a frame house in 1702
in order to have a place of worship. Tobias was a
Justice (then the equivalent of the old English "Squire")
in Chester County in 1724.
(Martin's History of Chester, pp. 126, 97, 462, 463.)
John Hendrickson married in 1694 Frances Bezer at
the Concord Monthly Meeting of Friends, she being the
daughter of John Bezer of Bishops Canings in Wiltshire,
England, and one of the Commissioners sent over by
William Penn to fix on the site of Philadelphia.
(Pa. Arch., 2nd Ser., Vol. XIX, p. 448. Gen. Soc.
of Pa. Publications, Vol. IV, March, 191 1, No. 3,
p. 282. R. P. Vol. II, p. 182.)
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Of their children we know of Tobias Hendrickson
(named for his uncle), who removed to York where he
married Margaret, daughter of Spinckel WilHams, and
had issue.
(York County Wills, Vol. 825, p. 467. Chester
County Wills, Vol. 155, pp. 345, 418, both at
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Elizabeth Hendrickson married William Bright prior
to her father's death, as he refers to her in his will by
her married name. This is also true of her sister Isabel,
who married John Vanneman, of Gloucester County,
New Jersey, and lived directly across the Delaware River
from Marcus Hook.
Elizabeth Bright and her husband, AVilliam, and her
sister Isabel Vanneman (or Von Iman) were sponsors
in the church at Swedesboro at the christening of
Elizabeth, daughter of Maria and John Bright (the
brother of William Bright), on August loth, 1729.
(Swedesboro Church Records, Vol. 1037, p. 119,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Albert Hendrickson also had a daughter, who was the
widow of Martinus Shehaid of Penn's Neck, Salem
County, N. J., as letters of administration were issued to
him in 1694 reciting him as a "yeoman of Pennsylvania,
father of the widow."
(N. J. Arch., ist Ser., Vol. XXIII, p. 413.)
Isabel Hendrickson (2) married John Vanneman, of
Gloucester County, N. J. (See Vanneman Family,
p. 84.)
(Will Book 5, p. 84, Trenton, N. J.)
They had the following children :
Tobias, named after his uncle, Tobias Hendrickson.
John, named after his father.
Garret (3), named after his grandfather, Garret Van-
neman.
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Martha, and also a daughter who married WilHam
Estlack.
Garret Vanneman (3) married Christian Denny,
October 30th, 1734.
(See Denny Family, p. 106.)
Their daughter, Christian Vanneman (4), married
Thomas Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 50.)
Their son, Jeffery Clark, Jr. (5), married Rachel
Weatherby.
(See Weatherby Family, p. 66.)
Their daughter, Christian Clark (6), married James
Reeves Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 28.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (7), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (8), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (9), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (10).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (10),
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JUSTICSOiN FAMILY
OF
GLOUCESTER COUNTY
NEW JERSEY
JUSTICSON FAMILY
Johan (Jans, Jan, James) Gustaffscn (Justicson,
Justen), emigrated from Kinekulle, Sweden, on the
"Swan" in 1643. He served as a soldier at Fort Elfborg
(Elsinboro) , on Salem Creek (near Salem, N. J.), in 1644,
under Johann Printz, Governor of New Sweden. He is
listed as a gunner in 1654, and became a free man in
the same year.
(Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West Jersey
and Delaware, by Albert C. Myers, p. 112.
Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, by
Amandus Johnson, Vol. II, pp. 714, 703, 718,
719-)
Fort Elsinboro was garrisoned by twelve men and one
Lieutenant, and v.-as a Swedish outpost on the Dela-
ware River. After the Swedes were conquered by the
Dutch under Governor Stuyvesant and Nicasius DeSille
(see DeSille Family, p. 223), Jan Justicson took the oath
of allegiance to the United Netherlands in 1655, and on
February 23rd, 1656, appeared before the Dutch Council
and asked permission to make a plantation on Christina
Creek (near Wilmington, Del.)
(Doc. of Col. Hist., State of N. Y., Vol. XII, pp.
28, 106-7, 141-)
In 1669 a rebelhon against the EngHsh, who had in
turn conquered the Dutch and occupied the Colony on
the Delaware, broke out among the Swedes led by John
Binckson called "The Long Finne." The revolution was
quickly put down and Binckson was found guilty of an
attempt to "make the colonists adhere to the King of
Sweden," and was transported to the Barbadoes. In the
list of inhabitants who were styled his "confederates"
and fined therefor, appears the names of Bertie (Albert)
Hendrickson (see Hendrickson Family, p. 122) and Jan
Justicson.
(Ibid., pp. 463, 468. 470, 472.)
U3oj
Justicson incurred the heaviest penalty of any of the
revolutionists except Binckson, being fined 1500 guilders.
(Ibid., p. 471.)
It is probable that this fine was not paid, for on August
24th, 1672, Governor Lovelace ordered a commission of
three to "have inspection into the fines about 'The
Long Finne' and to levy against any persons in arrears."
(Ibid., p. 544.)
On April loth, 1673, the English Governor, Francis
Lovelace, by patent dated April loth, 1673, granted to
James Justason (Jans Juste) 100 acres, which he later
(March ist, 1678), sold to his co-revolutionist, Albert
Hendrickson.
(Pa. Arch., 2nd Ser., Vol. XIX, p. 448.)
On November 15th, 1676, Hans Hoffman, a Sergeant
under the Dutch in 1655, and also a participant in the
Long Finn Rebellion,
(Doc. of Col. Hist., N. Y., Vol. XII, pp. 133, 470.)
together with Peter Junson and Jan Justicson (Guns
Justassen) purchased of Ansawith Woappeck and Jan
Awicham, Indian owners, a tract on the east side of the
Delaware River opposite Marrities Hook (Marcus Hook) ,
beginning at the lower end with Oldmans Creek along
river to first small creek called by the Indians "Cach-
kikanahacking." This purchase was evidently made to
quiet title of the Indians as the "Tract from Timber
Creek to Oldmans Creek with Raccoon Island" had
been granted on June 25th, 1668, by the Governor under
a "license to inhabit" to Oela Raeson, who on November
9th, 1675, sold to James Justassen, which purchase after
the acquiring of the Indian title was confirmed by the
Court at New Castle to James Justassen in 1680.
(Records of Court of New Castle, pub. by Colonial
Soc. of Pa. in 1904, pp. 462, 466.)
Jans Justicson had a son. Nils Justicson (2).
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Nils Justicson (2), was born in 1658 upon his father's
plantation on Christina Creek (near Wilmington,
Del.).
Peter Kalm, the Swedish scientist, on his visit to
America, came to Swedesboro, N. J., on March 27th,
1749, and gives an interesting account of his interview
with Nils Gustasson who, he says, was then 91 years old
and "still pretty hearty and fresh" and walked "by the
help of a stick." Nils Justicson remembered New
Jersey when the Dutch possessed it before the arrival of
the English, and said his father was sent over from
Sweden to cultivate and inhabit the country. He
further said he had brought timber to Philadelphia at
the time it was built, and that he remembered having
seen a great forest on the spot where Philadelphia now
stands.
(Kalm's Travels in North America, Vol. II, pp.
106, 108, 109.)
He said the Indians attempted to kill his mother, who
resisted them, and "a number of Swedes came and
frightened the Indians and made them run away."
(Ibid., p. 114.)
Further, he remembered that his father bought ground
from the Indians in New Jersey,
(vSee records of sale by Indians to Jan Justicson,
supra, p. 131.)
and that to the deed the Indians signed a beaver, bow and
arrow and mountain,
(Kalm's Travels, p. 118.)
and that his father sold some of the ground to the
English for a cow, a sow and 100 gourds.
(Ibid., p. 124.)
In May 171 1, Nils Justicson purchased 100 acres from
Andrew Robeson, and on May 2d, 171 1, made a like
purchase.
(Deed Book, Glouc. A, pp. 196, 197, Sect'y of
State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
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One hundred acres of these grants he gave his son-in-law,
Thomas Denny, on March 21st, 1720, for "the love he
hath and bareth to ye said Thomas Denny."
(Ibid., p. 198.)
As was the case with many of the Swedes, Nils Justicson
was also known by another and shorter name "Quist."
(His father was called " Iliac") In the various baptismal
records of the Denny, Justicson and Romans Families,
who were all related, Nils Justicson's name frequently
appears as Nils "Quist."
(Records of Swedesboro Church, Vol. 1037, pp.
56, 67, 80.)
He was sponsor for Gunilla and Christina Denny and
Nils Gustafsson, his grandchildren, in 1713, 1716 and 1727.
(Swedesboro Church Records, Vol. 1037, pp. 56,
80, 112, Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Nils Justicson died in 1759, leaving a will in which he
devised his plantation of 100 acres to his son Justa
(Gustaf) and divided his residuary estate equally be-
tween his sons Justa and Nicholas (Nils).
John and Thomas Denny, grandsons of the testator
w^ere witnesses to the will, which was dated March 12th,
1754, and proved March ist, 1759.
(661 H. of Wills, Sect'v of State's Office, Trenton,
N.J.)
Of his children :
Justa married Elizabeth — — , died July 15th, 1762,
65 years old.
(Original Records, Swedesboro Church, Vol. I,
1 715-1785. Deed from Robeson in 1736 to
Justa Justicson for W. side Raccoon Creek.
Gloucester Co., N. J.)
Nicholas, married Catherine ■ — , died 1760.
(Deed 1747, Harrison to Nicholas Justicson,
Glouc. Co.)
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Maria (3), about 1712, married Thomas Denny.
(See Denny Family, p. 104.)
Christina (4), daughter of Thomas and Maria Denny,
married Garret Vanneman.
(See Vanneman Family, p. 85.)
Their daughter. Christian Vanneman (5), married
Thomas Clark.
(See Clark Family, p. 50.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark, Jr. (6), married Rachel
Weatherby.
(See Weatherby Family, p. 66.)
Their daughter, Christian Clark (7), married James
Reeves Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 28.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (8), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. 39.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (9), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner (10), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (11).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (11).
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BIDDLE FAMILY
OF
BUCKS COUNTY, PA.
BIDDLE FAMILY
Thomas Biddle (i), on November 8th, 1702, married
Rachel Groesbeck, daughter of Jacob Claesszen Groesbeck
and Anna Vandergrift. (See Groesbeck Family, p. 120.)
(Register of First Prebyterian Church, Phila., at
Penna. Hist. Soc, p. 93.)
Their children were baptized in the Dutch Reformed
Church at Churchville and Bensalem, Bucks County,
Pa., by the Rev. Paulus Van Vleck. In his journal is
the entry on Alay 27th, 1710, of the baptism of Rachel,
daughter of Thomas Biddle and Rachel Groesbeck. Lea
Groesbeck and Johannis Van Sandt were the witnesses.
On August 13th, 1 710, at Neshaminy, he baptized
Sarah (2) and Thomas, children of Thomas and Rachel
Biddle.
(Journal Presby. Hist. Soc, No. i, Journal of
Paulus Van Vleck — Baptisms, pp. 123, 125.)
These children are all mentioned in the will of William
Biddle, their father's cousin.
(West Jersey Wills, Lib. I, p. 335.)
Thomas Biddle, husband of Rachel Groesbeck, was
licensed on December nth, 1704, to keep a ferry between
the town of Burlington and Philadelphia.
(Book A. A. A., N. J. Commissions, p. 27, Sect'y
of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
John Reeve, of Burlington, had also a license to keep
a like ferry.
(Ibid., p. 24-)
There is very little doubt but that Sarah (2), daughter
of Thomas Biddle, married Thomas Reeves, the son of
the above John Reeve about 1725.
(See Reeves Family, p. 59.)
The oldest son of Thomas and Sarah Reeves was
named Biddle Reeves, and a daughter was named Rachel,
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no doubt for her grandmother Groesbeck. The name
Biddle has been handed down in several generations of
the Reeves Family.
(Vol. 2552, p. 64, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
One of the children of Thomas and Sarah Reeves was
Arthur Reeves (3), who married IVlary Cox.
(See Cox Family, p. 74.)
Their daughter, Sarah Reeves (4), married James
Stephens.
(See Stephens Family, p. 26.)
Their son, James Reeves Stephens (5), married Chris-
tian Clark.
(See Clark Famil^^ p. 54.)
Their son, Jeffrey Clark Stephens (6), married Eliza
Jane Henry.
(See Henry Family, p. ,^9.)
Their daughter, Christiana Stephens (7), married Louis
Reichner, Jr.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
Their son, Louis Irving Reichner f8), married Cephise
H. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (9), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (9), born August 29th, 1905.
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AIKEN FAMILY
OF
FAIRFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA
AIKEN FAMILY
James Aiken (i) was born in County Antrim, Ireland,
and lived about twenty miles from the Giant's Causeway,
according to the history written by his grandson, Dr.
William E. Aiken, in 1852. James Aiken and his family
came to America between 1787 and 1789, and settled in
Fairfield County, South Carolina, near Little River.
James Aiken died after a few years and his wife, Elizabeth,
survived him nine years, dA'ing October i6th, 1803.
They had the following children, all born in County
Antrim, Ireland:
(a) John, lived in Fairfield County, S. C, near Little
River, married Betsey . He died in 1835, and his
wife in 1847. Had sons, Hiram, Hugh, Robert, Joseph,
all of whom removed to Alabama and Mississippi.
(b) Hugh, lived and died in Fairfield Count3^ S. C, near
his brother John's plantation, married Esther ■, had
following children: James (married Mary Dixon), Hugh,
William, Elizabeth, Jane (married Martin).
(c) Margaret, married David Martin, of Laurens
County, S. C, had following children: Robert, David.
William, James, John, Edward, Mary, Jane, Margaret.
Elizabeth, Rebecca.
(d) Mary, married Edward Martin (brother of David),
of Fairfield County, S. C, had large family. Among the
sons were John Aiken Martin and James Martin, of
Charleston, S. C.
(e) William, born March, 1779, settled in Charleston,
owned Jehossee Island. In 1828 was President of South
Carolina Railroad. Married Henrietta Wyatt, of Charles-
ton, S. C, and died in March, 1831. Is buried in St.
Phillips Churchyard, Charleston, S. C. His only child,
William, born in 1806, married Henrietta Lowndes, of
Charleston, was Governor of South Carolina in 1844.
and U. S. Congressman, 1851 to 1857. Aiken County,
S. C. was named for him. He died September 8th, 1887.
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and is buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. His
daughter, Henrietta Lowndes Aiken, married A. Burnett
Rhett, had issue.
(/) Elizabeth, married Boyd, died Laurens, S. C.
(g) .David (2), born June 17th, 1786, married Nancy
Kerr, had issue.
David Aiken (2), youngest son of James Aiken and
Elizabeth Reid, was born in County Antrim, Ireland,
June 17th, 1786, and came to America as an infant with
his mother and father. The families settled in the
"Little River District," Fairfield County, South Caro-
lina. After the death of his mother in 1803, David Aiken
went to Charleston, S. C, where he engaged in business
with his brother William. In 1805 he removed to Winns-
boro, S. C. On February 25th, 181 3, he married Nancy
Kerr, whose family also had come from County Antrim,
Ireland. The marriage took place at the home of the
bride's uncle, Major Joseph Kerr, of York, S. C.
David Aiken amassed a large fortune in land and
slaves, owning five plantations and over 300 negroes.
He died November i8th, i860, and his wife December
1 8th, 1869. Both are buried in the Presbyterian Church-
yard at Winnsboro, S. C.
They had nine children :
(a) James Reid (3), born November 15th, 1 8 13, married,
1837, Eliza Jane Cloud, had issue, died July loth, 1877.
(b) Elizabeth Rachel, born February 23rd, 18 15, in
Winnsboro, S. C, married, February loth, 1838, Dr.
O. M. Woodward, of Winnsboro, who died May nth,
1847. She died July 26th, 1887, and is buried at Winns-
boro, S. C. Had no children.
(c) Joseph Daniel, born in Winnsboro, S, C, August
loth, 181 7. Graduated South Carolina College, 1841.
Removed to Charleston, S. C, and married April 4th,
1848, Ellen D. Martin. Was member of Legislature,
First Lieutenant, Ashley Dragoons, Third South Carolina
Cavalry. Saw service in Civil War. Died at Charleston,
S. C, July 5th, 1884. Buried in Magnolia Cemetery.
(141)
Left four children, William Martin, Ellen M. (married
Daniel Parker), Joseph, Daniel, Jr., Serena (married Dr.
T. Grange Simons).
(d) Caroline Margaret, born January i6th, 1S20, in
Winnsboro, S. C, died unmarried December 26th, 1878,
and is buried at Winnsboro, S. C.
(e) Hugh Kerr, born in Winnsboro, S. C, July 5th,
1822. Graduated South Carolina College. Engaged in
cotton business in Charleston, S. C. Married in Mobile,
Ala., December 15th, 1852, Mary Gayle. Was Colonel of
Sixth South Carolina Cavalry in Civil War. Wounded
at Trevellian Station, killed at Lynch 's Creek, S. C.
Buried at Winnsboro, S. C. Left two children. Dr. J.
Gayle Aiken, of New Orleans, Mrs. MacC. Robertson, of
Columbia, S. C.
(/) William Edward, born in Winnsboro, S. C, January
8th, 1826. Graduated at South Carolina College. Studied
medicine in Baltimore. Md., and Paris, France. Prac-
ticed in Winnsboro, S. C. Married January 14th, 1852,
Patsy E. Woodward, of Talladega, Ala. He died July
19th, 1900, and his wife March 30th, 1905. Both are
buried at Winnsboro, S. C. They left five children, Car-
rie (married T. K. Elliott), David, Annie (married John
Davis), Augusta (married Charles A. Douglas), Mary
Ellen.
(g) David W^yatt, born in Winnsboro, S. C, March 1 7th,
1828. Graduated at South Carolina College. Married
April 27th, 1852, (i) Mattie Gaillard, died 1855; (2)
Virginia Carolina Smith, died 1900. David Wyatt Aiken
was a planter near Winnsboro. In Civil War he was
Colonel of Seventh South Carolina Regiment. Wounded
at Antietam, made prisoner, exchanged, 1863. Member
of South Carohna Legislature, 1S64, 1866; Member of
Congress, 1878 to 1888. He died April 6th, 1887, and is
buried at Greenwood, S. C. He left one child by his first
wife, Ella (married R. D. Stuart), and seven children by
his second wife, David, Eliza (married G. W. Taylor),
Virginia (married W. G. Neville), Mary (married S. R.
Pritchard), Milton, Joel, D. Wyatt (Member of Con-
gress from South Carolina for many years).
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(h) Isaac Means, born in Winnsboro, vS. C, October
1 8th, 1830. Graduated at South Carolina College, was in
lumber business at Darien, Ga., married Fannie M.
Bryan January 21st, 1858. In Civil War was Captain of
Fourth Georgia Regiment. Died at Pensacola, Fla., April
loth, 1907. He left six children: David Wyatt, Frank
Dun woody, Isaac Hugh, Verena Holmes (married J. S.
McGauley), Mary Ellison (married William C. Mc-
Clellan).
(/) Augustus Milton, born in Winnsboro, S. C, January
loth, 1834. Graduated South Carolina Military Academy
(The Citadel). Was a planter at Winnsboro, S. C.
Married on November 27th, i860, (i) Emma Eliza
Smith; (2) on May 25th, 1866, Mary Ann Gilliam. In
the Civil W^ar he was First Lieutenant in Ordnance De-
partment, Richmond; later with Sixth South Carolina
Cavalry. He died August loth, 1907, and is buried at
Greenwood, S. C. His children, all by his second wife,
were Dr. Hugh Kerr Aiken, James Gilliam, Jessie Glenn
(married F. D. Hodges).
(Records in Family Bible owned by Dr. Hugh
Kerr Aiken, Laurens, S. C.)
James Reid Aiken (3), the eldest son of James Aiken
and Elizabeth Reid, was born in Winnsboro. S. C, on
November 15th, 181 2. He graduated from South Caro-
lina College in the Class of 1832. In 1836 he volunteered
for service in the Seminole War. He enrolled February
17th, 1836, at Sister's Ferry, Ga., as a Sergeant in Cap-
tain Smith's Company, Goodwyn's Regiment, South
Carolina Mounted Militia. Was promoted to First
Sergeant and mustered out, with the Company May 6th,
1836.
(Records of Adjutant General's Office, War De-
partment, Washington, D. C, A. G. 201.)
In 1844 he was elected to the House of Representa-
tives. Was President of the Planters Bank of Fairfield
for many years. During the Civil War he was Receiver
for Fairfield. Kershaw and Sumter Districts, S. C, under
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the Sequestration Act of 1861 of the Confederate States.
He married on December 5th, 1837, at Bechamville,
Chester County, S. C, EHza Jane Cloud, daughter of
Dr. WilHam Cloud and Margaret Holmes. (See Cloud
and Holmes Families, pp. 150, 154.) They had six chil-
dren, all born in Winnsboro, S. C. :
(a) Eunice Amelia, born November 30th, 1843, married
Pierre Bacot October gth, 1866. Pierre Bacot was the
son of R. Wainwright Bacot and Bessie Eraser (a sister
of Princess Lucien Murat, wife of the second son of Murat,
King of Naples). Two of their children survived them,
Eunice (Mrs. Richard Caldwell, of Charleston) and
Bessie (Mrs. A. Newton Stall, of Greenville).
(6) William David (4), born July 19th, 1846, married
Alice H. Slawson, had issue.
(c) Mary Louise, born October 31st, 1848, married
DuboseEggleston, of Charleston, October loth, 1868. The
following children survived them: William (married Bon-
ham Aldrich), Mary Louise (married R. E. Lee), Martha
Dubose (married Rev. Dr. Prentiss), and Dubose.
(d) Margaret Cloud Calhoun, born January 24th, 1858,
unmarried.
(e) Clarence Cloud, born January 30th, 1841, died Jan-
uary 2nd, 1850.
(/) Eliza Jane, born June 15th, 1S61, died March 24th,
1862.
James Reid Aiken died in Winnsboro, S. C, on July
loth, 1877, ^i^d his wife, Eliza, on June 15th, 1861. They
are both interred in the Presbyterian Churchyard at
Winnsboro.
(See Aiken Family Histories by William E. Aiken,
Augustus M. Aiken, and Aiken Family Bible
Records, Tombstone Inscriptions, etc.)
William David Aiken (4), eldest son of James Reid
Aiken and Eliza Jane Cloud, was born in Winnsboro, S. C,
on July 19th, 1846. He was at school in "The Arsenal " at
Columbia, S. C, at the outbreak of the Civil War, and
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immediately enlisted in the Confederate Army and was
sent to Charleston. Later he joined the Sixth South
Carolina Cavalry, and served throughout the Virginia
Campaign as courier to his uncle, Colonel Hugh Kerr
Aiken, who died in his arms at the Battle of Lynch's
Creek, S. C, February 27th, 1865. After the close of
the War, William D. Aiken was a planter at Winnsboro.
On April 6th, 1875, he married Alice H. Slawson, of New
Orleans, then living with her parents at 16 West Forty-
sixth Street, New York. She was the daughter of John
Budd Slawson and Cephise L. VanWickle. (See Slawson
and Van Wickle Families, pp. 158, 176.) On October 6th,
1885, they removed to Princeton, N. J., in order to secure
educational advantages for their children and be near
Mrs. Aiken's parents. In 1S98 they returned to South
Carolina.
They had six children:
(a) Cephise Hyacinthe (5), born in Govrrnnr Aiken's
town house in Winnsboro, S. C, February 13th, 1877,
married L. Irving Reichner, of Philadelphia, Pa., June
17th, 1897, had issue.
(b) Leila Alice, born on the plantation near Winnsboro,
S. C, December 4th, 1S78, married Clough Sims Steele,
of Lowrysville, S. C. They have one child, Clough Sims
Steele, Jr., born November 24th, 1904.
(c) Budd Slawson Aiken, born on the plantation near
Winnsboro, S. C, December 2nd, 1880, and now (1918)
Corporal, Headquarters Troop, with the Thirtieth Di-
vision, American Expeditionary Force in France.
(d) William David, born in Winnsboro, S. C, July nth,
1882, and now (1918) Secretary to Hon. Asbury F. Lever,
United States Congressman for South Carolina, Chair-
man of the Committee of Agriculture and author of the
Lever Bill for Food and Fuel Conservation, etc.
(c) James Hugh Aiken, born in Winnsboro, S. C,
January 14th, 1884, died, unmarried. September j-yth,
191 5, and is interred in the Slawson Vault at Greenwood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. A man of exceptional
ability and greatest personal attraction, he was beloved
by all his friends and family.
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(/) John Morgan, born in Princeton, N. J., at the Aiken
Homestead, Nassau Street, September 23rd, 1890; now
( 1918) enlisted in the Medical Corps, United States Army.
Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (5), eldest daughter of
William D. Aiken and Alice H. Slawson, was born at the
town house in Winnsboro, S. C, on February 13th, 1877.
She married at St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia, Pa., on
June 17th, 1897, Louis Irving Reichner, of Philadelphia,
Pa.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (6), born in Philadelphia, Pa., June
4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (6), born in Cynwyd,
Pa., August 29th, 1905.
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CLOUD FAMILY
OF
EDGEFIELD AND CHESTER COUNTIES
SOUTH CAROLINA
CLOUD FAMILY
James Cloud (i) lived in Edgefield County, S. C, and
married Janette (Jane) McKown, daughter of Malcolm
McKown. The McKowns were of Scotch ancestry, and
emigrated to Colerain Township, Lancaster Count}^
Pennsylvania.
(Vol. 634, p. 722, Genealogical Society of Penna.,
1300 Locust St., Phila., Pa.)
Later the family removed to Chester County, S. C,
where the above marriage took place.
James Cloud died in Chester County, S. C, leaving a
will in which he speaks of his wife "Jennett," his
daughters Jennet, Elizabeth and Sarah, and his son
William, whom he appoints one of his executors. The
will disposes of considerable real estate and slaves b}^
name. It was dated July 21st, 181 9.
(Book H, folios 2, 3, 4, Records of Probate at
Chester, Chester County, S. C.)
His widow Jane (Jannett) died in Chester County,
S. C, leaving a will dated December 7th, 1825.
(Book C, Records of Probate at Chester, Chester
County, S. C.)
The children of James Cloud and Jannett McKown
were :
(a) Elizabeth, married Charles Boyd, had issue, James
Cloud.
(b) Sarah, married Hugh Hicklin, has issue Jason,
Jennet M., Charles, Mary C.
(c) Jennet, married William Hemphill, had issue, Jane,
Susan C.
(d) William (2), born 1789, married Margaret Holmes,
1 819, died 1872, had issue.
{c) James, married Susanna , died 1807.
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William Cloud (2), son of James Cloud and Janet te
McKown, was born in Chester County, S. C, on October
26th, 1789. He studied medicine, and while in Augusta,
Ga., married, on June 17th, 18 19, Margaret Holmes,
daughter of Hogden Holmes and Elizabeth Hill.
(See Holmes Family, p. 153.)
After his marriage he returned to Chester Count}' and
practiced his profession at Bechamville, S. C, where he
died August 21st, 1872. His will is dated February 19th,
1867, with a codicil dated December 14th, 1870. His
sons-in-law James R. Aiken and Elias Earle were the
executors.
(Records of Probate at Chester, Chester Co.,
S. C.)
He left the following children :
(a) Eliza Jaxe (3), born August 15th, 1820, married
James Reid Aiken, of Winnsboro, S. C, had issue.
(b) Sarah F. Oliver, born February 14th, 1822. mar-
ried Samuel Dubose, of Berkeley County, S. C, had issue,
vSamuel and Margaret (married S. C. Boyleston).
(t) Mary Louisa Hill, born August 6th, 1825, married
Elias Earle, of Greenville, S. C, had issue, Eliza T.
(married Baylis Earle), Robert M., Mary H., and
Susan B.
(d) Susan Anna Isabella, born April 22nd, 1827, mar-
ried Robert B. Boyleston, of Charleston, S. C, had issue,
William C. (married Augusta Shoemaker), Robert B..
Susan Ann, and Harry F.
(c) Eunice Regina Bluet, born October 21st, 1828,
died August 13th, 1918, unmarried.
(/) Margaret William Holmes, born August 13th. 1830,
married William L. Calhoun, son of John C. Calhoun, of
Fort Hill, now Clemson, S. C, died April 9th, 1855, leaving
no issue.
(Vol. 2553, p. 30, at Gen Soc. of Pa., 1300 Locust
St., Phila., Pa.)
Margaret Holmes Cloud, wife of Dr. William Cloud.
died at Bechamville, Chester County, vS. C, April 19th,
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1832. She is buried in the family plot near the old
homestead.
Eliza Jane Cloud (3), daughter of Dr. William Cloud
and Margaret Holmes, was born on August 15th, 1820,
at Bechamville, Chester County, S. C. She married at
that place on December 5th, 1837, James Reid Aiken,
son of David Aiken and Nancy Kerr.
(See Aiken Family, p. 144.)
Their son, William D. Aiken (4), married Alice H.
Slawson.
(See Slawson Family, p. 158.)
Their daughter, Cephise H. Aiken (5), married L.
Irving Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (6), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (6), born August 29th,
1905-
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HOLMES FAMILY
OF
RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA
HOLMES FAMILY
Hogden Holmes (i) was a Scotchman by birth, but
when quite young went with his father, Robert Holmes, to
Cork, Ireland, where the elder Holmes acquired a bleach
green and engaged in the manufacture of linen. Robert
Holmes wished Hogden to marry contrary to his inclina-
tion; consequently he left home and set out for the New
World. He finally settled in Augusta, Georgia, where
he purchased from Thomas and Ann Gumming, one acre
of land fronting on Reynolds, Houston and Bay Streets.
(Records of Richmond Gounty, Ga.)
He married Elizabeth Hill, of Columbia County, Ga.,
and died in Augusta, Ga., in 1804, leaving a will dated
December 19th, 1804, proved January 7th, 1805, in which
he names his wife Elizabeth and his only child Margaret.
(Will Book A, p. 28, Office of Ordinary of Rich-
mond Gounty, at Augusta, Ga.)
This daughter, Margaret McGleary, was born in
Augusta, Ga., Septem_ber 13th, 1801, married Dr. William
Cloud, had issue.
Hogden Holm.es was the inventor of a machine "for
taking burrs out of wool." James Reid Aiken, of Winns-
boro, S. C, who married Holmes' granddaughter, Eliza
Jane Cloud, wrote a brief account, in which he says,
"in 1775 Hogden Holmes was the original inventor and
his machine was locked up in Hamburg, S. C. when
Whitney (Eli) through the help of a negro, secured a
diagram of it. On this infringement Whitney got a
patent for 'a machine for ginning cotton.' This created
a lawsuit in Georgia. Holmes spent some SSooo and
died insolvent. The suit went to the United States
Courts, and Whitney sold his claim to the State of South
Carolina for $20,000. After Holmes' death the case was
abandoned, as his heirs did not desire to contend against
the State. Holmes got his patent in 179(1, and Col.
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William McCreigh of Winnsboro bought the rights for
20 years and made and sold all the cotton gins in the
South up to 1 8 10." Holmes' patent, which was signed by
President George Washington, was dated May 12th, 1796.
It was presented in 1882 to the South Carolina Historical
Society by William D. Aiken, a great-grandson of Hogden
Holmes. A full record of the invention and lawsuit is in
a book at the South Carolina College Library. (See
also "Cotton and Cotton Oil" by D. A. Tompkins, Vol.
I, pp. 2, 20, 30, 471, at Hist. Soc. of Pa., and "Some
Historical Facts as to the Real Invention of the Cotton
Gin" by Henry P. Moore, published in "The Sunny
South," Atlanta, Ga. Copy in Vol. 2553, pp. 26, 28, 29,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa., 1300 Locust Street, Phila., Pa.)
In "Origin, Cultivation and Uses of Cotton" by W. B.
Seabrook, published in Charleston, S. C, 1844, the
author says, "The Holmes machine was set up in the
grist' mill of Capt. James Kincaid on Mill Creek in
Craven (now Fairfield) County, S. C, in 1795, and is
reported to have been the first of the saw gins used in
that State."
In "Cotton and Cotton Oil" by D. A. Tompkins
Vol. I, p. 20 (at Hist. Soc. of Pa.), the author says, "The
records show that Holmes was not a man of collegiate
education. It is natural, therefore, that his specifications
which had to be put in the inventor's own language,
should not be so clear as that of Whitney, who was a
Yale graduate and who had the assistance of two Yale
professors (Josiah Stebbins and Elizur Goodrich) in the
preparation of his papers." It seems to be certain that
the idea of the cotton gin originated with Hogden Holmes.
Margaret McCleary Holmes (2}, only child of Hogden
Holmes and Elizabeth Hill, was born in Augusta, Georgia,
on September 13th, iSoi, and on June 17th, 1S19, married
Dr. William Cloud, son of James Cloud and Janette
McKown.
(See Cloud Family, p. 149.)
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Their daughter, Eliza Jane Cloud (3), married James
Reid Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 144.)
Their son, William D. Aiken (4), married AUce H.
Slawson.
(See vSlawson Family, p. i$S.)
Their daughter, Cephise H. Aiken (5), married L.
Irving Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (6), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reicliner (6), born August 2Qth,
1905.
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SLAWSON FAMILY
OF
CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK
SLAWSQN FAMILY
George Slawson (i) settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, in
1637, and later removed to Stamford, Conn.
He had the following children mentioned in his will of
December i6th, 1694.
Eleazer, John, and a daughter, wife of John Gould.
He died February i6th, 1695.
His son, John (2), married in 1663 Sarah Tuttle of New
Haven.
They had the following children :
John, (born September 9th, 1664, died in 1706), Jona-
than, (born in 1667), Sarah, Mary, Thomas, Jonah.
Jonathan (3), son of John and Sarah Slawson, was born
in 1667, married (i) Mary Waterbury, (2) Rose Stevens.
He had a son David, born 1697.
David (4), son of Jonathan Slawson, married Eunice
Schofield. Their son was Jonathan.
(See Vol. 2552, p. 115, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Jonathan Slawson (5), son of David and Eunice
Slawson, was born in -New Canaan, Connecticut, on
February 28th, 1737. On December 2nd, 1762, he
married Lydia Lockwood, born February 9th, 1742.
They had the following children :
Elihu (6), born in New Canaan, Fairfield County.
Conn., September 27th, 1769, married Esther Case.
Jonathan, born September 15th, 1763.
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Daniel, born September 26th, 1765.
Rhoda, born October 4th, 1767.
Sarah, born December 4th, 1771.
Simeon, bom January 19th, 1776.
Lydia, born December 17th, 1777.
Jonas, born February 19th, 1780.
Mary, born February 21st, 1784.
(See Vol. 2553, pp. 44, 45, 54, at Gen Soc. of Pa.)
Elihu Slawson (6), was born in New Canaan, Conn.,
September 27th, 1769, and removed to Orange County,
N. Y., where he married about 1800 Esther Case, daughter
of Joseph Case and Esther Budd of Goshen, N. Y. (See
Case Family, p. 164.) She was born February 6th, 1779,
and died May 29th, 1845. He died March 23rd, 1842.
They both are buried in the Pine Hill Cemetery, near
Middletown, Orange County, New York.
(Slawson Bible Records and Records of Presby-
terian Church at Goshen, Copies in R. P. Vol.
2553, pp. 40, 44, 45, 48, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
They had four sons born at Bull Hack, about a mile
south of Circleville, Orange County, New York.
DeWitt, born March 22nd, 1802, married Elizabeth
Horton.
Joseph Lockwood, born July 25th, 1804, married
Rosetta Sayer.
Milton, born 1807, married Prudence Wood.
John Budd (7), born February 19th, 1814, married
Cephise L. Van Wickle.
(Case Records, R. P. Vol. 2552, p. 132; Vol.
-553. P- 44' 3.t Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
John Budd Slawson (7), son of Elihu and Esther
Slawson, was born in Orange County, New York, on
February 19th, 1814, and on October 6th, 1846, at
Grace Church, Lyons, New York, married Cephise Laura
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Van Wickle, daughter of Simon and Catharine Van
Wickle. (See Van Wickle Family, p. 175.)
After their marriage they lived in New Orleans, La.,
where their two daughters, Alice and Kate, were born.
At the outbreak of the Civil War John Budd Slawson
was a signer of the Secession Ordinance of Louisiana,
and for this act a price set upon his head by General
Benjamin Butler. He sent his family to Cuba, and
escaping himself from New Orleans, ran the blockade
and joined them in Paris. There the family remained
until after the War, when they came to New York, where
John B. Slawson became President of the Cross-town
Street Railway and the inventor of the Slawson fare-box.
He died on February 12th, 1886, a man of the highest
standing and character. His wife survived him seven
years, dying April 23rd, 1893.
They are both buried in the Slawson Vault, Green-
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Their children were:
Kate Laura Slawson, born April 6th, 1853, married
William C. Seddon, died January 15th, 1887.
Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (8), born August 21st,
1847, married William D. Aiken.
Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (8), the eldest daughter of
John B. Slawson and Cephise Laura Van Wickle, his
wife, was born on August 21st, 1847, in New Orleans. La.
While abroad in 1863 she vv^as educated at Mdme. Achet
de Massy's School, No. 4 Rue Valois du Roule, Paris.
After her family returned to New York City she entered
school at Riverdale on the Hudson, where she graduated.
She married on April 6th-, 1875, at St. Thomas' Protestant
Episcopal Church, New York City, William David
Aiken, son of James Reid Aiken and Eliza Jane Cloud,
of Winnsboro, South Carohna. (See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They have the following children :
Cephise Hyacinthe, born in Winnsboro, S. C, February
13th, 1877, married June 17th, 1897, L. Irving Rcichner.
had issue.
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Leila Alice, born in Winnsboro, wS. C, December 4th,
1878, married June 23rd, 1903, Clough Sims Steele, of
Chester, S. C. They have one son, Clough Sims Steele,
Jr., born November 24th, 1904, at Charlotte, N. C.
Budd Slawson, born in Winnsboro, S. C, December
2nd, 1880. (Corporal, Headquarters Troop, Thirtieth
Division, American Expeditionary Force in France.)
William David, Jr., born in Winnsboro, S. C, July
nth, 1882.
James Hugh, born in Winnsboro, S. C, January 14th,
1884, died unmarried September t^^h, 1915. Interred in
Slawson Vault, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.
John Morgan, born September 23rd, 1890. (Private,
United States Medical Corps, 19 18.)
Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (9), eldest daughter of
William D. Aiken and Alice H. Slawson, was born in
Winnsboro, vS. C, February 13th, 1877. On June 17th,
1897, at St. Mary's P. E. Church, Philadelphia, Pa.,
she married Louis Irving Reichner, son of Louis Reichner,
Jr., and Christiana Stephens.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (10), born in Philadelphia, Pa., June
4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (10), born in Cynwyd,
Pa., August 29th, 1905.
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CASE FAMILY
OF
MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, AND
ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK
CASE FAMILY
Henry Case (i) lived in Southold, Long Island, and
was on the tax list in 1683. His son, Theophilus Case (2),
was the father of
Joshua Case (3), who was born in 1721 and married
Elizabeth Dickerson in Roxbury, N. J., about 1742.
His death occurred July 9th, 1777, and he was buried
in the churchyard of the Presybterian Church at Suc-
casunna, N. J.
His will, dated July ist, 1777, and proved August i6th,
1777, names his wife Elizabeth, his sons Augustus,
Phineas, Joshua, Joseph and Samuel, and his daughters
Rhoda, Susanna, Sarah.
(Chambers' Early Germans of New Jersey, p.
284-8. Tombstone in First Presbyterian
Churchyard, Succasunna, N. J. Will Book 19, p.
138, Trenton, N. J. Vol. 2552, pp. 132, 133;
Vol. 2553, pp. 38, 39, 48, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In addition to the above-named children Joshua Case
had a son John and a daughter Lois.
Of the children of Joshua Case,
Joshua married Phebe McCord, died 1798.
(Will Book 37, p. 231, Trenton, N. J.)
Joseph (4), married Esther Budd.
Rhoda, married Cassidy.
Susanna, married Silas Jennings.
Sarah, married Broderick.
Augustus, was born July 17th, 1759.
Joseph Case ^4), son of Joshua and Elizabeth Case,
was born in 1747 in Roxbury, Morris County, N. J., and
removed to Goshen, N. Y., where in 1776 he married
Esther Budd, daughter of John and Mary Budd, also
of Goshen, N. Y. (See Budd Family, p. 166.)
(Deed Book K, p. 396, Morristown, N. J.)
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They had the following children:
Esther (5) born February 6th, 1779, died May 29th,
1845, married Elihu Slawson.
EHzabeth, born March 8th, 1781, married Jesse Owen.
John, born April 9th, 1783, married Mary Mead.
Joshua, married Ruth Mead.
Mary (Polly) married Isaiah Clark.
Sallie, married Nathaniel Myers, died 1836.
Jane, unmarried.
Julia, married Gilbert Christie.
Joseph, died unmarried July 3rd, 1833.
(Records of Presbyterian Church, Goshen, N. Y. ;
Case Records. R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 132; \'^oI.
2553, pp. 48, 42, 43, 40, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Joseph Case died near Minisink, Orange County,
N. Y., in 181 1, administration being granted to his
widow, Esther, and his sons, Joshua and John, by the
Surrogate of Orange County, N. Y., on February 5th,
1811.
(R. P., Vol. 2553, p. 42, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
He was a signer of the Articles of Association at
Goshen, Orange County, N. Y., April 29th, 1775.
(Col. of Hist. Man. of War of Rev., Vol. i, p. 5.
Eager's Hist, of Orange County, N. Y., p. 499.)
He was a Second Lieutenant, 20th October, 1779, and
July I St, 1780, in Captain Joseph Conkling's Company
of the Regiment of Orange County Militia, commanded
by Colonel Jesse Woodhull.
(N. Y. State Arch., Vol. I (Doc. Relat. Col. Hist,
of N. Y., Vol. 15), p. 290, copy in R. P., Vol.
2552, p. 131, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Esther Case, his widow, died December 19th, 1841.
Esther Case (5), daughter of Joseph and Esther Case,
was born in Goshen, Orange County, N. Y., February 6th,
1779, and baptized in the Presbyterian Church on May
loth, 1780.
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In 1800 she married Elihu Slawson of Dolsentown,
Orange County, N. Y., son of Jonathan and Lydia
wSlawson of New Canaan, Conn.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
Elihu Slawson was born September 27th, 1769, died
March 23d, 1842; Esther, his wife, died May 29th,
1845. They both are buried in Pine Hill Cemetery in
Orange County, N. Y., three miles south of Middletown,
on the State Road.
(R. P., Vol. 2553, pp. 40, 48, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
From this marriage were born:
DeWitt Slawson, born March 22nd, 1802, married
EHzabeth Horton.
Joseph Lockwood Slawson, born July 25th, 1804,
married Rosetta Sayer.
Milton Slawson, born 1807, married Prudence Wood.
John Budd Slawson (6), born February 19th, 18 14,
married Cephise L. Van Wickle.
(R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 132; Vol. 2553, pp. 40, 44.
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
John Budd Slawson (6) married Cephise L. Van Wickle.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 175)
Their daughter, Alice H. Slawson (7), married William
D. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
Their daughter, Cephise H. Aiken (8), married L.
Irving Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (9), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (9), born August 29th,
1905.
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BUDD FAMILY
OF
CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK
BUDD FAMILY
John Budd (i) arrived from England in New Haven
in 1632. He was one of the first planters of New Haven
in 1639. He removed to Southold, Long Island, where
he was a Lieutenant until 1660. In 1661 he went to
Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., and in 1663 was a
deputy to the General Court of Connecticut. He was
the first proprietor of Apawquamus or Budd's Neck, hav-
ing purchased from the Indians November 6th, 1661.
He died in 1670, leaving a will dated October 13th,
1669.
(Town of Southold, L. I., by C. B. Moore.
Southold Town Records, Vol. I, pp. 463,
465; Vol. II, pp. 34, 251 to 258. Will M 3,
Hartford, Vol. I, p. 425. History of Budd
Family at Hist. Soc. of Pa., Phila.)
He left the following children:
John (2).
Sarah.
Hannah, married Jonathan Hart.
Mary, married Christopher Youngs.
Ann, born January 5th, 1666, married Benjamin
Horton.
(vSouthold Town Records, Vol. I, pp. 463, 465;
Vol. II (Liber C), pp. 34, 251 to 258.)
John Budd (3), son of John Budd (2), and grandson
of John Budd (i), married Mary, daughter of Captain
Joseph Youngs of Southold, L. I., and removed to
Goshen, Orange County, N. Y.
Their daughter was Esther Budd (4), who in 1777
married Joseph Case. (See Case Family, p. 162.)
(R. P., Vol. 2553, pp. 47, 48, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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Their daughter, Esther Case (5), married EUhu
Slawson.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
Their son, John Budd Slawson (6), married Cephise L.
Van Wickle.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 175.)
Their daughter, Alice H. Slawson (7), married William
D. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
Their daughter, Cephise H. Aiken (8), married L.
Irving Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
And they have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (9), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (9), born August 29th,
1905.
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VAN WIGKLE FAMILY
OF
SOMERSET AND MIDDLESEX COUNTIES
NEW JERSEY
VAN WICKLE FAMILY
Evert Janse Van Wickelen (i) was born in Holland
and emigrated to America about 1664 with his two
brothers from Wykel or Wykeler, a village in Friesland.
He was a carpenter and was an inhabitant of Flatlands
(Flatbush, Long Island) in 1687. About 1700 he bought
800 acres on the Raritan River from William Dockwra.
(Corwins His. Discourse, p. 21. Deed Book H. 2,
p. 401, Trenton, N. J.)
On May 29th, 1703, he bought, together with Gerardus
Beckman and Leffert Pieterse, 450 acres on the Raritan
River from Thomas Cardol.
(Deed Book I., p. 425, Trenton, N. J.)
He married in 1687, Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick
Van Liew, and died in 1722,
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, p. 343.)
They had seven children :
Jan (married Ida Remsen), Zytie or Eytie (who mar-
ried Hans Bergen), Covert, Pieternelletje (who married
Rem Hegeman), Symon (2) (who married Gerradine
Couwenhoven) Gerrit, and Geertje (who married Henry
Suydam, who died 1722.)
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, pp.
366, 367. R. P., Vol. 2553, p. 14, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa., 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa.)
S)Tiion Van Wickelen (2) was born on Long Island.
In 1735 he removed to Raritan, Somerset County, N. J.
He married Gerradina Cowenhoven, daughter of Nicasius
Janse and Elsie Cowenhoven. (See Cowenhoven Family,
p. 207.)
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, pp.
79. 367-)
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He died in 1755, leaving a will dated August 14th,
1753, and proved January 3rd, 1755.
(Will Book F, p. 237, Secretary of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J. Copy in R. P., Vol. 2553, p. i,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In this will he recites his wife "Dinah," two sons. Evert
and Nicholas, and his six daughters, Anne, Mary, Dinah,
Elsie (baptized on June 9th, 1723, at Flatbush), Mattje
and Seytje.
His plantation on the Raritan was halfway between
New Brunswick and Bound Brook, N. J., and all his
real estate he devised equally to his two sons, who were
also appointed executors of his will.
His son Evert married Cornelia Lapardus and died in
1757, had issue.
Nicholas Van Wickelen (3) (or Van VVickle), son of
Symon Van Wickelen and Gerradina Van Cowenhoven,
in 1749 (license dated May 27th, 1749,) married (i)
Catherine for Tryntje) Boice, daughter of John Boice, of
Middlesex County, N. J. (See Boice Family, p. 196.)
She died between January ist, 1779, and April loth, 1790.
(1739-61 Marriage Licenses and Deed Book A. N.,
' P- 377' vSecretary of State's Office, Trenton,
N. J.)
In April, 1790, he married (2) Margaret Donaldson,
widow of Lambert Tree, of Philadelphia.
(See "The Tree Family," by J. G. Leach, p. 64.)
He lived at Raritan until about 1770, when he removed
to Matcheponix, New Jersey, where he died in 1801.
His farm was near Jamesburg, N. J., and is the site of
the present Reform School. He and his wife, Catherine,
on May ist, 1776, conveyed land to Cornelius Low, and
on January ist, 1779, conveyed 226 acres in Perth
Amboy to Edward Thomas.
(Deed Book A, p. 282, at Somerville, N. J., and
Book A. N. of Deeds, p. 377, Secretary of State's
Office, Trenton, N. J.)
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Nicholas Van Wickle left a will dated February 7th,
1 80 1, and proved June loth, 1801. Witnessed by Charles
and James Morgan.
(9891 L. of Wills. Book 39, p. 376, Secretary of
State's Office, Trenton, N. J. Copy in R. P.,
Vol. 2553, p. 10, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In this will he refers to his marriage agreement dated
April loth, 1790, with Margaret Tree, his second wife.
Nicholas Van Wickle had six children by his first wife,
Catherine Boice :
John, born at Raritan, August 23rd, 1749, married
Anna Rue, died 1830, had issue.
(See Rue Family, p. 181.)
Simon, born at Raritan, February 22nd, 1752, married
Catherine Johnston.
Gerredena, born at Raritan, June 6th, 1754, married
Henry Dillentash.
Siche, born at Raritan, August loth, 1757, married
Archibald Gordon.
Evert, born at Raritan, March 21st, 1761.
Jacob (4), born at Matcheponix, May loth, 1770,
married Sarah Morgan, died in 1854, had issue.
(Bible Records of Nicholas Van Wickle. Copy in
R. P., Vol. 2552, pp. 46, 47, and Vol. 2553,
p. 15, at Gen. Soc. of Pa. Will of Nicholas Van
Wickle, Book 39, p. 376, Secretary of State's
Office, Trenton, N. J.)
Jacob Van Wickle (4), youngest child of Nicholas Van
Wickle and Catherine Boice, was born at Matcheponix,
New Jersey, on May loth, 1770, and baptized on June
24th, 1770. He married, on June 27th, 1792, Sarah
Morgan, daughter of Captain James Morgan and Mar-
garet Evertsen, of South Amboy, N. J. (See Morgan
Family, p. 192.)
(Jacob Van Wickle Bible Records, Records of
St. Peter's Church, Spottswood, N. J. Copies in
R. P.,Vol.2552,pp. 37, 40, 41, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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Jacob Van Wickle was a Judge in Middlesex County,
N. J., for forty years, and was one of the oldest and
most respected citizens. Sarah, his wife, died at Old
Bridge, N. J., September 21st, 1835, in the sixty-
fourth year of her age. She bore him four sons and six
daughters :
Margaret Sophia, born December 26th, 1793, married
Obadiah Herbert.
(Deed Book 7, p. 83, New Brunswick, N. J.)
Stephen, born January 6th, 1798, married Adele
Morgan, of New Orelans, La.
Nicholas, born January 7th, 1796, married Ada
Suydam.
Catherine (5), born May 24th, 1800, married Simon
Van Wickle, of Lyons, N. Y.
Ann Amanda Fitzallen, born November 26th, 1802,
married Leonard Appleby.
Jacob Charles, born October 20th, 1805, married Eliza
Ledoux, of Louisiana.
Sarah Hyacinth, born September 2nd, 1808, married
Increase S. Wood, 1832.
Evert Croes Hale, born September 5th, 181 1, died
January 22nd, 181 2.
Malvinia, born April 8th, 1813, married Aaron Remsen,
1835-
Albinia, born November ist, 1822.
(Jacob Van Wickle Bible Records. Records of
St. Peter's P. E. Church, Spottswood, N. J.
Copies in R. P., Vol. 2552, pp. 36, t^^j, t^^, 42,
43; Vol. 2553, p. 16, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Jacob and his wife, Sarah, on October 27th, 1803, con-
veyed land to John Herbert.
(Deed Book 7, p. 83, New Brunswick, N. J.)
Jacob Van Wickle married a second time Susan Boyce,
a widow, of Raritan, N. J. There were no children by
this marriage. He died at Old Bridge, N. J., April 6th,
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1854. and is interred in the Churchyard of St. Peter's
P. E. Church.
(Will Book E, p. 560, New Brunswick, N. J.
Records of St. Peter's Church, Spottswood,
N. J. Copy in R. P., Vol. 2552, pp. 40, 41, at
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Catharine Van Wickle (5), daughter of Judge Jacob
Van Wickle and Sarah Morgan, was born at Old Bridge,
N. J., on May 24th, 1800. She married at St. Peter's
P. E. Church, Spottswood, N. J., on February nth,
1823, Simon Van Wickle, of Lyons, New York, who was
her cousin and son of John Van Wickle (brother of Judge
Jacob Van Wickle) and Anna Rue (see Rue Family,
p. 183.) Simon Van Wickle, her husband, was born
October 14th, 1773, and died in Lyons, N. Y., on October
27th, 1829.
(Tombstone in Rural Cemetery at Lyons, New
York. Copy of inscription in R. P., Vol. 2552,
p. 44, Gen. Soc. of Pa. Will Book E, p. 560,
New Brunswick, N. J.)
They had three children:
Charles Lewis, born December 26th, 1823, died un-
married May 17th, 1849.
Cephise Laura, born January 2nd, 1826, baptized
June 25th, 1826.
Sarah Maria, born June 8th, 1828, baptized November
ist, 1828, married Ebenezer S. Brown.
(Records of St. Peter's P. E. Church, Spottswood,
N. J. Copy in R. P., Vol. 2552, pp. 40, 42, 43,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Catherine Van Wickle married a second time on
November 30th, 1830, James Van Voorhees, of Fishkill,
N. Y. He died January 26th, 1833,
(Tombstone in Rural Cemetery, Lyons, N. Y.
Copy of inscription in R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 44,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
leaving her with one child :
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Mary Ashley Van Voorhees, born 1832, married
Gideon Townsend, of Iowa, died at New Orleans, La., in
1901.
Catherine Van Wickle Van Voorhees married a third
time on August 27th, 1837, Abel Lyman, of Winchester,
New Hampshire. He died March 12th, 1895, leaving
her with one child, William Remsen Lyman, who mar-
ried Mary Adelia Campbell, and lived at Rushton, La.
(R. P., Vol. 2553, p. 16, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Catherine Van Wickle Lyman died March 23rd, 1895,
and is interred in the Rural Cemetery at Lyons, New
York.
(Copy of Tombstone Inscriptions in R. P., Vol.
2552, p. 44, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Cephise Laura Van Wickle (6), daughter of Simon and
Catharine Van Wickle, was born on January 2nd, 1826,
at Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y., and baptized at Spotts-
wood, N. J., on June 25th, 1826.
(Records of St. Peters P. E. Church, Spottswood,
N. J. Copy in R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 43.)
She married John Budd Slawson, son of Elihu Slawson
and Esther Case, of Orange County, New York, on
October 6th. 1846, at Grace Church, Lyons, N. Y.
(See Slawson and Case Families, pp. 157, 164.)
They lived in New Orleans, La., until April, 1863,
when they went to Havana, Cuba, and from there to
Europe, where they travelled until the close of the Civil
War in 1865. They then purchased a residence at 16
West Forty-sixth Street, New York City, where they
lived until Mr. Slawson's death on February 12th, 1886.
His widow died in New Brunswick, N. J., on April 23rd,
1893.
(Will Book O, p. 538, New Brunswick, N. J.)
John Budd Slawson was one of the signers of the
Secession Ordinance of the State of Louisiana, and for
this a price was set upon his head by General Benjamin
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Butler. After his arrival in New York he invented
the Slawson patent fare-box in use on all the stage lines
and horse cars, and became largely interested in the
Cross-town Street Railway of New York City.
(Copy of records of Van Wickle and Morgan
Families at the Genealogical Society of Pa.,
1300 Locust Street, Phila., Pa.)
John B. Slawson and Cephise Laura Van Wickle, his
wife, had two children:
Alice Hyacinthe (7) born in New Orleans, La., on
August 2ist, 1847, married William D. Aiken, and had
issue.
Kate Laura, born in New Orleans, La., on April 6th,
1853, married on October 6th, 1875, William C. Seddon,
of Richmond, Va., son of James A. Seddon, Secretary of
War of the Confederate States, and died January 15th,
1887, leaving a daughter, Sallie Bruce, who married
Rev. Robert B. Nelson, of Baltimore, Md.
Alice Hyacinthe (7), the eldest daughter of John B.
Slawson and Cephise Laura Van Wickle, his wife, was
born on August 21st, 1847, in New Orleans, La. While
abroad in 1863 she was educated at Mdme. Achet de
Massy's School, No. 4 Rue Valois du Roule, Paris. After
her family returned to New York City she entered
School at Riverdale on the Hudson, where she graduated.
She married on April 6th, 1875, at St. Thomas' P. E.
Church, New York City, William David Aiken, son of
James Reid Aiken and Eliza Jane Cloud, of Winnsboro,
South Carolina.
(See Aiken and Cloud Families, pp. 145, 154.)
They have the following children :
Cephise Hyacinthe, born in Winnsboro, S. C, February
13th, 1877, married June 17th, 1897, L. Irving Reichner,
had issue.
Leila Alice, born in Winnsboro, S. C, December 4th,
1878, married, June 23rd, 1903, Clough Sims Steele, of
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Chester, S. C. They have one son, Clough Sims Steele,
Jr., born November 24th, 1904, at Charlotte, N. C.
Budd Slawson, born in Winnsboro, S. C, December
2nd, 1880, now (19 18) Corporal in Headquarters Troop,
Thirtieth Division, American Expeditionary Force in
France.
William David, Jr., born in Winnsboro, S. C, July
nth, 1882.
James Hugh, born in Winnsboro, S. C, January 14th,
1884, died unmarried September i-y^, 191 5. Interred in
Slawson Vault, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New
York.
John Morgan, born in Princeton, N. J., September
23rd, 1890, now (1918) Private in Medical Corps, United
States Army.
Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (8), eldest daughter of
William D. Aiken and Alice H. Slawson, was born in
Winnsboro, S. C, February 13th, 1877. On June 17th,
1897, at St. Mary's P. E. Church, Philadelphia, Pa., she
married Louis Irving Reichner, son of Louis Reichner,
Jr., and Christiana Stephens.
(See Reichner and Stephens Families, pp. 14, 18.)
They have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (9), born in Philadelphia, Pa., June
4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (9), born in Cynwyd,
Pa., August 29th, 1905.
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RUE FAMILY
OF
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, AND
WAYNE COUNTY, NEW YORK
RUE FAMILY
Matthew LaRue (i), of Staten Island, married Mar-
garet Dove, daughter of Alexander and Jane Dove, of
Freehold, N. J. (See Dove Family, p. 218.) She died
before 1763.
(Deed Book A 3, p. 192, and Will Book C, p. 299,
at Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
They had the following children: John, JXIatthew,
Josej^h and Margaret.
John LaRue (2) (Rue), sen of Matthew, was born in
1679, married Petronella , and died in 1775.
(R. P., Vol. I, p. 63, Vol. II, p. 49. Will Book L,
P- 355' Secretary of State's Office, Trenton,
N.J.)
He came to Perth Amboy, N. J., in 17 16.
(Deed Book I. 2, p. 192, Trenton, N. J.)
His children were, Matthew (married (i) Elizabeth,
(2) Margaret Harbour), Joseph (married Sarah ),
(Will Book H, p. 534, Trenton, N. J.)
William (married Elizabeth ), John (3) (married
Scythe Boice.
(See Boice Family, p. 196.)
John Rue (3), of Matchaponix, Middlesex County,
sen of John and Petronella Rue, by license of May 20th,
1 75 1, married S^^tie Boice Voorhees, daughter of John
Boice and widow of Luke \''oorhees. (License of June
9th, 1746.)
(R. P., Vol. I, p. 151. Book R 1 735-1 79 1 of
Marriage Licenses, Trenton, N. J., Secretary of
State's Office. See Boice Family, p. 196.)
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John Rue died in 1795, leaving a will dated September
4th, 1777, proved November i6th, 1795.
(Will Book 35, p. 184, 8903-8908 L of Wills, at
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
In this will he mentions his wife "Seythe," his son
John and his daughters Lydia (under 18), Eleanor,
Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mary, who married John Perrine, Jr.,
Scitey, who married • — Craig, Ann who married John
Van Wickle. His son John and Matthew, son of Matthew
Rue, qualified as executors.
Ann Rue (4), daughter of above John Rue, was born
October i6th, 1753, near Matcheponix, N. J., and married
John Van Wickle, son of Nicholas Van Wickle and
Catherine Boice. ( See Van Wickle and Boice Families, pp.
172, 197.) They removed from Middlesex County, N. J.,
to Lyons, AVayne County, N. Y., and he died December
28th, 1830, aged 81 years, 4 months, 5 days, at Lyons.
John Van Wickle and his son Evert were on the list of
taxables in the Lyons District, Wayne County, N. Y.,
in 1799.
(History of Phelps and Gorhams Purchase by O.
Turner, p. 508.)
The first town meeting for district of Sodus was held
April 2nd, 1799, at the Van Wickle house on what, in
1895, was the Rogers Farm in the town of Lyons.
(Landmarks of Wayne County, N. Y., by Geo.
W. Cowles, p. 222.)
On the tax list of October 9th, 1802, for Sodus, John
Van Wickle is taxed on 224 acres.
(Id., pp. 227-8.)
John Perrine, his brother-in-law (married Mary Rue),
came with John Van Wickle from New Jersey. They
obtained a grant in 1806 for land known as the Parsonage
Farm, designed as a permanent endowment of the Presby-
terian Church.
(Id., p. 229.)
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John Van AVickle was one of the first Trustees of the
First Presbyterian Church of Lyons on January 2nd,
1800. (
(Id., p. 247.)
"John Van Wickle was the oldest inhabitant in Lyons,
except James Otto. He was born August 23rd, 1749,
near New Brunswick, N. J., and came to Wayne County,
N. Y., in 1796. He came to Lyons with his wife, five sons
and five daughters in an old-fashioned "Jersey" wagon.
It was a journey of sixteen days. The first night they
slept in a house where Mr. Hotchkiss' brick mill now
(1877) stands, at the foot of Broad Street. In iScS the
warehouse was moved to the lot where the Presbyterian
Church now stands. \^an Wickle took 640 acres on
North side of Mud Creek, West of the village and op-
posite the house now (1877) occupied by A. A. Baker,
tenant of Mr. Parshall. They cleared some two acres and
sold to Major Stout for which Simon, eldest son of John
Van Wickle received a deed of 200 acres. They moved
into the woods and in 181 2 built a frame house on the
farm owned by Sim.on Van Wickle, with whom his parents
and an unmarried sister lived. William G. Rogers now
(1877) lives there. The sons of John Van Wickle were
Simon, John, Evert, Abram and Jacob, all married. His
four daughters married John Riggs, Captain William
Paton, John Stout and John Alfred. One daughter died
unmarried. The family were Presbyterians. The only
descendants of John Van Wickle now in Wayne County
are the sons of Abram, J. G. Van Wickle, Stephen D.
Van Wickle, and a daughter and son of Evert, viz., Mrs.
G. W. Moore of Newark, N. J., and Simon Van Wickle
of Savannah. Major Stout, the friend of the family
followed the Van Wickles from New Jersey with his
bride, Margaret Morgan."
("Lyons in the Olden Time," by T. T. R., pub-
lished in The Lyons Republican, February
15th, 1877.)
The children of John Van Wickle and Ann Rue \'an
Wickle were;
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4
5
6
7
8
9
lo
II
Nicholas, born i8th December, 1769, baptized 24th
June, 1870. Married Catherine Van Tine.
Siche or Kyte, married John Riggs.
SiMox (5), born October 14th, 1773, married
Catharine Van Wickle.
Evert, married Catherine Dorchester, had issue.
Abram, married Margaret Perrine, had issue.
John, married Gibbs.
Catherine, married John Alfred.
Nellie, married Captain William M. Paton.
Lydia, married John Stout.
Anna, died unmarried.
Jacob, married Ellen .
Simon Van Wickle (5), son of John Van Wickle and
Anne Rue, was born October 14th, 1773, married Cath-
erine Van Wickle, his cousin, daughter of Jacob Van
Wickle and Sarah Morgan, February nth, 1823, and
died October 27th, 1829.
Their daughter, Cephise Laura Van Wickle (6),
married John B. Slawson.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
Their daughter, Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (7), married
Wilham D. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
Their daughter, Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (8), married
Louis Irving Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (9), and
Morgan Stephens Reichner (9) .
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MORGAN FAMILY
OF
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
NEW JERSEY
MORGAN FAMILY
Prior to the Roman Invasion the district now known
as Carmarthenshire in Wales was inhabited by a warHke
tribe called by the Romans the Demetae. Of this tribe
Cadivor-Fawr (i) was a chieftain in io8g. He com-
manded in what is now^ Pembrokeshire. His wife was
Elen, daughter of Llwch Llawen. He died in io8g,
and was buried at Carmarthen. His third son was
Bleddri (5).
Bleddri (2) witnessed a Berkerolles grant of Bassaleg
to Glastonbury. He married Clydwen, daughter of
Griffith ap Cydrich ap Gwaethfold-fawr, and had
Ivor (3), who married Nest, daughter of Caradoc ap
Madoc ap Iduerth ap Cadwgan ap Elystan Gloddrydd,
and had
Llewelyn (4), who married Lleici, daughter of Griffith
ap Beli, and had
Ivor (5), who married Tanglwet, daughter of Howel
Sais ap Arglwydd Rhys, and had
Llewelyn Lleia (6),' who married Susan, daughter of
Howel ap Howel Sais, a first cousin. They had
Ivor (7), father of
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Llewelyn (8), ap Ivor of Tredegar, Lord of St. Clear,
who married Augharad, daughter of Sir Morgan ap
Meredith. They had
Morgan (g), of Tredegar and St. Clear, who married
Maud, daughter of Rhun ap Grono ap Llwarch, Lord of
Cibwr. He died before 1384. His son was
Llewelyn (^loj, ap Morgan of Tredegar and St. Clear,
who was living in 1387. He married Jenet, daughter
and heiress of David-A^chan ap David of Rydodyn.
They had
Jevan Morgan (11), born 141 5, died 144S, married
Denise (or Elizabeth), daughter of Thomas ap Llewelyn-
Vychan, of Llangat-tog-on-Usk. They had
Sir John Morgan (12), Kniglit of the Sepulchre in 144S
and Steward of Gwentlloog, who married Jenet, daughter
and co-heir of John ap David Mathew of Llandaff. They
had
Thomas Morgan (13), who was of Machen, Esquire
to the body of Henry VI, and was living in 1538. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Vaughan of
Porthhaml. They had
John Morgan (14), who was of Bassaleg, born in 1538,
died in 156S, married (i) Margaret, daughter of John
Williams, (2) Catherine, daughter of Rhys Meyric.
His son was
Thomas Morgan (15), who was of Bettws in 1587
His son was
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Roger Morgan (i6) of Bettws. His son was
George Morgan (17) of Bettws in 1614. His son was
Charles Morgan, of Newport.
(See History of Morgan Family by Appleton
Morgan, pp. 8, 12, 13, 14, 27, 31, at the His-
torical Society of Penna. The Morgan Coat-
of-Arms, in R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 49, at Gen.
Soc. of Penna.)
Charles Morgan (18) (immigrant ancestor), came to
America from Newport, Wales. He was a cadet in the
service of the West India Company September 14th,
1641, and was Magistrate of Gravesend, Long Island,
1657 to 1663.
He married (i) Helena Applegate, daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth Applegate, of Gravesend, (see Applegate
Family, p. 216), in New Amsterdam February 9th, 1648.
From this marriage was born Cha,rles, Thomas, John and
Daniel.
(Stillwell's Hist. & Gen. Misc., Vol. Ill, pp. i, 4,
Hist. vSoc. of Pa.)
On December i8th, 1653, he married (2) Catlyntje
Hendricks (Huyberts). Their children were Mary (bap-
tized 1657), Rachel (baptized 1659).
Charles Morgan died prior to 1668 at Gravesend, Long
Island.
(Morgan Family History, p. 31, at Hist. Soc. of
Pa. Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County,
p. 211. Vol. II of O'Callaghan's Manuscript
Translation of Colonial Documents, p. 280.
Records of Reformed Dutch Church, Collection
of N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Soc, Vol. I, pp. 15, iS.)
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Charles Morgan (19), eldest son of Charles Morgan
and Helena Applegate, was born about 1649 in New
Amsterdam. On April 15th, 1659, Edward Griffin and
Thomas Applebee (Applegate) sold to Charles Morgan,
Senior, for' his son, Charles, Plantation No. 14, in
Gravesend.
He lived in Jamaica in 1680 and at Flushing from 1683
to 1698, and was appointed Quartermaster of Militia
for Queens County, N. Y., in 1689-90 by Jacob Leister.
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, p. 211.
Calendar of English Manuscripts, p. 192. Doc.
Hist, of N. Y., Vol. 2, p. 351.)
In the "Voyages of David Peterson de Vries" in 1663
an account is given of a voyage from Manhattan to
Raritan Bay and his meeting with Charles Morgan, who
was the Sheriff at that time.
(Albany Records, Vol. XXI, p. 401. Old Times
in Old Monmouth, by Salter and Beckman,
p. 229. Whitehead's East Jersey, p. 259.)
About 1698 Charles Morgan settled in Middletown,
Monmouth County, New Jersey, where he died in 1719.
(History of Morgan Family, p. 31, at Hist. Soc.
of Pa. Will Book A., p. 179, 195-202 L of Wills,
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, New Jersey.)
In his will dated January 5th, 17 19, Charles Morgan
speaks of his wife Elizabeth and his daughters Mary
Savage, Aretas Robinson, Sarah, and his sons Charles,
Thomas and James.
(Copy in R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 137, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In 1698, when a resident of Flushing, the family con-
sisted of his wife, himself, and six children, Charles,
James, Thomas, Sarah, Ephraim and Sophy.
(Doc. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. I, p. 663.)
His will was proved February 17th, 17 19, and his son,
Charles Morgan, was made administrator May 23rd,
1720, the executors having renounced. The testator
is recited as a yeoman of Perth Amboy.
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Charles Morgan (20), son of Charles and Elizabeth
Morgan, was born in Flushing, Long Island, about 1683.
He married Ellison.
(Will Book K, p. 206, Trenton, N. J.)
He lived at Perth Amboy, N. J., and was a member of
the Provincial Assembly of New Jersey, from iviiddlesex
County, in 17 16.
(Smith's History of New Jersey, p. 404. Deed
Books B. B. B., p. 54; E. 2, p. 221, Trenton,
N.J.)
His w411, dated January 6th, 1749-50 (Old Style),
recites his sons Thomas, Charles, William, Daniel and
James, and his daughters Mary, Abigail and Sarah. He
speaks of his plantation on Chesequakes Creek and
mentions his brother-in-law Seth Ellison. This will was
proved April loth, 1750.
(Will book E, p. 380, 2359-2363 L of Wills at
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.
Copy in R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 140, at Gen. Soc. of
Pa. Deed Book A 3, p. 313, Trenton, N. J.)
James Morgan (21), son of Charles Morgan, of Moh-
miouth County, N. J., was born in 1734, and married
Margaret Evertsen, daughter of Nicholas Evertsen and
Susanna Roeters. (See Evertsen Family, p. 201.)
(Will Book 25, p. 210, 6265-6268 L of AVills,
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.
R. P., Vol. 2553, p. 19, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
James Morgan laid out a vast estate just south of Perth
Amboy on Raritan Bay,- where the present station, named
Morgan, on the New York and Long Branch Railway,
now stands. His source of revenue from the clay pits
in the vicinity yielded him what was for those days a
large income. The manor house, which was of large
extent, stood until 1874, when it was burned with all its
store of pictures and plate, being closed at the time.
One painting alone, that of Susanna Roeters, mother of
(igo)
the wife of James Morgan, was saved. Six hundred acres,
the remnant of the vast property, was sold in 1893 by the
Chancery Court.
(Morgan Family History, p. 32, at Hist. Soc. of Pa.)
James Morgan was an Ensign and then Captain in the
Second Regiment, Middlesex County, New Jersey, Militia,
and was also a Captain in the New Jersey State Troops
in the Revolutionary War.
(Stryker's New Jersey in the Revolution, p. 402.
Records of Adjutant General's Office, at Trenton,
N. J. R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 47, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
On August 30th, 1777, the Court of Admiralty met at
Allentown, Monmouth County, N. J., to try the bill
of James Morgan, Captain of Militia, against a vessel
of 140 tons called the "William and Anne," commanded
by Captain Jacobs and taken as a prize by James Morgan
near Long Branch. The bill was for condemnation of
the vessel as a prize of war.
(New Jersey Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. I, pp. 448,
449-)
In a list of " Damages done by the British in New Jersey
i776-i782"at the State Library, Trenton, N. J., James
Morgan suffered to the extent of 122 pounds 6 shillings
and 3 pence, and the inventory of loss was made October
2nd, 1782.
(Copy in R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 134, at Gen. Soc'
of Pa.)
In Clayton's History of Union and Middlesex Counties,
N. J., p. 484, occurs the following account:
"James ^lorgan of South Amboy, a Captain in
the State Troops was very active. Of course he
was not overlooked by the enemy. They destroyed
his 'kiln of stoneware not burned,' broke open his
desk and rifled it of a 'Silver watch, and 300 Con-
tinental dollars,' took off his wife's entire wardrobe
(including the good lady's 'velvet hood'), dashed
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in 23 of his window panes, made free with his '4 pr.
of Silver shoe buckles' besides carrying off such of
his military trappings as they found, consisting of
' I appalet, i Silver Hilted Sword, i Gun Good &
I Gold lase & hat band.'"
James Morgan died February 26th, 1784, in the fiftieth
year of his age, and his wdfe died June 8th, 1827, aged 96
years, 9 months and 21 days. They are buried in the
Morgan Family Burying Ground at Morgan Station,
near South Amboy, N. J.
(Copies of Tombstone Inscriptions in R. P., Vol.
2552, p. :iS, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
In his will, dated February 4th, 1784, and proved April
7th, 1784, he recites his w-ife Margaret, his sons James and
Charles, his daughters Abigail, wdfe of Joseph Rue,
Susanna, w4fe of John Disbrow^ Margaret (who after-
ward married Amos Stout), Mary (who afterward married
Thomas Warne), and Sarah (who afterward married
Jacob Van Wickle).
(Will Book 26, p. 256, 6601-6603 L- of Wills,
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.
Copy in R. P., Vol. 2552, p. 144, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa. Manuscript Records of \"an Wickle
and Morgan Families, pp. 178 to 1S7, at Gen.
Soc. of Pa.)
Sarah Morgan (22), daughter of James Morgan and
Margaret Evertsen, was born at Morgan Manor, near
South Amboy, N. J., on August i6th, 1772, and died
September 21st, 1S35.
(Records of St. Peter's P. E. Church, Spottswood,
N. J. Copy in R. P., Vol. 2552, pp. 40, 42,
Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
On June 27th, 1792, she married Jacob Van Wickle,
son of Nicholas Van Wickle and Catherine Boice. He
w^as born May loth, 1770, and died April 6th, 1854.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 172.)
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One of their children was
Catherine Van Wickle (23), born May 24th, 1800,
died March 23rd, 1895. On February nth, 1823, she
married her cousin, Simon Van Wickle, son of John
Van Wickle and Anne Rue.
(See Van Wickle and Rue Families, pp. 174, 183.)
He was born in 1770 and died October 27th, 1829.
One of their daughters was
Cephise Laura Van Wickle (24), born January 2nd,
1826, died April 23rd, 1893.
On October 6th, 1846, she married John Budd Slawson,
son of Elihu Slawson and Esther Case.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
He was born February 14th, 18 14, and died February
12th, 1886. One of their daughters was
Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (25), born August 21st,
1847. On April 6th, 1875, she married William David
Aiken, son of James Reid Aiken and Eliza Jane Cloud.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
He was born July 19th, 1846.
One of their children w^as
Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (26), born February 13th,
1877. On June 17th, 1897, she married Louis Irving
Reichner, son of Louis Reichner, Jr., and Christiana
Stephens.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
He was born July 14th, 187 1.
They have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (27), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (27), born August 29th,
1905.
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BOICE FAMILY
OF
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
NEW JERSEY
BOICE FAMILY
Jacob Jansen Boice (i), (Jan, Cornelis) was born in
Flatbush, Long Island in 1664. He went to New Jersey
before 1710, and settled at Six Mile Run (now Randolph-
ville). He married on November 22nd, 1690, Merritje
Joris Jacobsen (Mary George, daughter of Jacob).
Their children were :
J AN (2), born 1 66 1, married Syntie , died 1749.
Joris, born 1694, married Sitie Smock.
Fennetje (Fanny), born 1698.
Jacob, married Nealtje .
Hendrick, born 1702, married Antje .
Merritien (Mary), born 17 10, married Fulkert-
son.
Cornelius, born 17 13, married 1760 Lydia Van Duyn.
(Vol. 2553, p. 53, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Jan (John) Boice (2), was born in Brooklyn in 1661,
and died in Middlesex County, N. J., in September, 1749.
(Will Book E, p. 332, Secretary of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
He left surviving his wife, Syntie, three sons, John,
George and Jacob, and four daughters, Mary, wife of
Matthias Smock, Angeltje, Syntje (3), Catherine
(Tryntie) (3) all of whom he named in his will dated
March 3rd, 1749. Of these daughters Catherine or
Tryntie (3) married on May 27th, 1749, Nicasius (Nicholas)
Van Wickle, son of Simon Van Wickle. (See Van Wickle,
Family, p. 171.) Sytie Boice (3) married Luke Voorhees
in 1746, and upon his death John Rue by his license of
May 20th, 1 75 1. (See Rue Family, p. 180.)
From the above marriage of Nicasius (Nicholas) Van
Wickle and Catherine Boice (3), was born Jacob Van
Wickle (4) and John Van Wickle (4). (See Van Wickle
Family, p. 172.)
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From the above marriage of John Rue to Sytie Voorhees
(nee Boice) (3) was born Anne Rue (4) who married her
cousin John Van Wickle, the above-named son of Nicasius
(Nicholas) Van Wickle.
One of the children of John Van Wickle and Anne Rue
was Simon Van Wickle (5) who married his cousin
Catherine (5) daughter of Jacob Van Wickle (4) son of
Nicasius (Nicholas) Van Wickle, and brother of John
Van Wickle, who married Anne Rue.
The daughter of Simon and Catherine Van Wickle was
Cephise L. Van Wickle (6) who married John B.
Slawson.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
Their daughter, Alice H. Slawson (7), married William
D. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
Their daughter, Cephise H. Aiken (8), married L.
Irving Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (9) .
Morgan Stephens Reichner (9).
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EVERTSEN FAMILY
OF
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
NEW JERSEY
EVERTSEN FAMILY
Nicholas Evertsen (i), son of Evert Evertsen and
grandson of John Evertsen, was born December 27th,
1657, in Weesp, Holland, He emigrated to America in
1690.
On June 9th, 1698 he married Margaret Van Baal,
daughter of Jan Hendrickse Van Baal and Helena Teller.
(See Van Baal and Teller Families, pp. 212, 214.)
(Ancient History of New York by Purple, pp.
103, 104, 105, 106.)
He was Captain of New York troops in an expedition
against a French privateer in 1 704.
(Register of Colonial Dames of State of New
York, 1893-1913, p. 306.)
He had two sons, Nicholas (2), and John (baptized
January 29th, 1701).
Nicholas Evertsen (2), was baptized May 24th, 1699,
in New York City.
(Records of Reformed Dutch Church in New York
Gen. & Biog. Records, Vol. 14, p. 125.)
He married Susanna Roeters, daughter of Jacob
Roeters (Will Book B, p. 190, Trenton, N. J.,) and died
March 17th, 1783, in South Amboy, N. J.
He was a Judge of the Common Pleas for the County
of Middlesex, N. J., in 1746, and a Justice in Monmouth
County,' N. J., in 1747.
(Clayton's History of Monmouth and Middlesex
Counties, N. J., p. 496. Register of Colonial
Dames of State of New York 1893-1913, p. 306.
New Jersey Archives, ist Series, Vol. XV, p.
464, Vol. XVI, p. 89.)
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His will is dated March 13th, 1783, and proved at
Princeton, N. J., October 2nd, 1783.
(Will Book 25, p. 210, 6265-6268 of Wills, at Secre-
tary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
In it he recites himself of South Amboy, N. J., and
mentions his wife Susanna, and the following children:
George.
Margaret (wife of James Morgan.).
Mary (wife of ■ Case) .
Susanna, deceased (wife of Joseph Ellison).
John.
Elizabeth (wife of William Buckalew).
Jacob.
He devises his lands "in the Nine Partners in Dutchess
County, New York, " sundry lots in Minisink, N. Y.,
amounting to over 1000 acres, a house and 60 acres in
South Amboy, N. J., and the residue of his land in South
Amboy.
He appointed his son Jacob and his son-in-law James
Morgan executors.
In the Penna. Gazette of May 9th, 1751, Nicholas
Evertsen "living two miles from Perth Amboy Ferry"
offered a reward of 40 shillings for the capture of his
escaped negro slave, "Tom."
(New Jersey Archives, ist Series, Vol. XIX, p. 71.)
Margaret Evertsen (3), daughter of Nicholas and
Susannah Evertsen, was born August i8th, 1730.
(Tombstone Inscription in Morgan Cemetery.
Copy in Vol. 2552, p. 39, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
She married Captain James Morgan, born 1734, son
of Charles Morgan 3rd (see Morgan Family, p. 190), and
died June 8th, 1827. Captain James Morgan died
February 26th, 1784.
Their daughter was Sarah Morgan (4), who married
Jacob Van Wickle.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 172.)
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Their daughter, Catherine Van Wickie (5), married
Simon Van Wickie.
(See Van Wickie Family, p. 174.)
Their daughter, Cephise Laura Van Wickie (6),
married John B. Slawson.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
Their daughter, Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (7 )
married William D. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
Their daughter, Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (8) ,
married L. Irving Reichner (see Reichner Family, p. 14)
and they have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (9), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (9), born August 29th,
1905.
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COWENHOVEN FAMILY
OF
NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
COWENHOVEN FAMILY
Wolfert Gerretse Cowenhoven (i), emigrated to
America with his family in 1630 on the ship "Eendracht"
from Amersfoot in the Province of Utrecht in the Nether-
lands. He was employed at first as early as 1630 as
superintendent of farms by the Patroon at Rensel-
laerswick, afterwards cultivated a farm on Manhattan
Island and in June, 1637, with Andrus Hudde purchased
of the Indians the westernmost of the three flats in Flat-
lands and Flatbush called Kaskuteur or Kaskatenn
patented to them by Director Van Twiller, June i6th,
1637. On August 2nd, 1639, Hudde conveyed to him
his interest in a house, barn, barrack and garden on
Long Island, called "Achtervelt."
On September i6th, 1641, Hudde conveyed to him 68
morgens of plain land and 55^2 morgens of woodland in
Flatlands.
He was a freeholder in Midwont in 1637, 1641 and
Shoepen of New Amsterdam in 1654. He was also a
Great Burgher of New Amsterdam in 1657, and Com-
missioner to Holland in 1653.
(N. J. Colonial Dames Register for 1914, p.
275-)
Wolfert married Neeltje and died after 1660.
He may have removed to New Amsterdam prior to his
death, as his name appears in 1657 on the list of small
burghers of that place.
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County,
p. 81.)
His children were:
GerretWolfertse (2), born 16 10, married Altie Cool,
died about 1645, had issue.
(Early Settlers of Kings County, by T. G. Bergen,
P- n-)
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Jacob Wolfertse, married (i) Hester Jansen, (2) Mag-
daleentje Jacobnse Bysen, died about 1670, had issue.
(Early Settlers of Kings County, by T. G. Bergen,
p. 78.)
Pieter Wolfertse married (i) Hester vSymons Daws,
(2) Aeltje Sibrants, had issue.
(Early Settlers of Kings County, by T. G. Bergen,
p. 80.)
Gerret Wolfertse Ccwenhoven (2), born in 16 10, emi-
grated with his father in 1631 and resided in Flatlands.
He married Altie, daughter of Cornelius Lambertsen Cool
and Altien Brackhonge, who lived in Gowanus in 1639
and was a Patentee in Breuckelen in 1642.
(Early Settlers of Kings County, by T. G. Bergen,
p. 68. New Jersey Colonial Dames Register for
1914, p. 240.)
Gerret Wolfertse on July 26th, 1638, bought of Andrus
Hudde 50 morgens of land at " Achtervelt." He was
one of the eight men representing the people who on No-
vember 3rd, 1643, memorialized the States-General for
relief in consequence of their forlorn and defenceless
condition.
(Vol. I of Doc. of Col. Hist, of N. Y., p. 139,
N. Y. Colonial Dames Register, p. 400.)
On March nth, 1647 a patent was issued in his name
(dated after his death) for 19 morgens of land in Brooklyn
on the valley of Gowanus Kil, between the lands of Jacob
Stoffelsen and those of Frederick Lubbertsen.
Gerret Wolfertse died about 1645.
(Early Settlers of Kings County, by T. G. Bergen,
PP- 77, 78.)
His issue were:
Willem Gerretse, born 1636, married (i) Altie Brinck-
erhoff, (2) Jannetje Monfoort, had issue.
(Early Settlers of Kings County, by T. G. Bergen,
p. 80.)
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Jan Gerretse (3), born 1639, married Geradientja
De Sille, had issue.
Neeltje Gerretse, born 1641, married Rollof Martense
Schenck.
Mary Gerretse, born 1644, married Coert Stevense
Van Voorhies.
(Early Settlers of Kings County, by T. G. Bergen,
p. 78-)
Jan Gerretse Cowenhoven (3), (Van Couwenhoven)
was bom in 1639 in Flatlands. He was a farmer and a
member of the Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn in
1677 and 1685, and resided at Brooklyn Ferry.
On the settlement of his father's estate he was allowed
miore than his brother on account of being lame. He
was a member of Leister's Council and a member of the
Court of Exchequer, New Amsterdam.
(N. J. Colonial Dames Register for 1914, p. 375.)
He married Gerradina De Sille, daughter of Nicasius
De Sille and Marie de la Montaigne. (See De Sille
Family, p. 224.)
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, p. 79.)
His issue were :
Gerret Janse, married (i) Lysbet — , (2) Aeltie
, died 1 7 12, had issue.
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, p. j-j.)
Aeltje Janse, born 1678, married Derick Abramse
Brinckerhofi, had issue.
Nicasius Janse (4), born 1681, married Elsie — ,
died 1749, had issue.
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, p. 79.)
Cornelius Janse, married 1691 Gerret A. Middagh.
Nelly Janse, married 1694 Jores Rapalje.
Willemtje Janse, married 1685 Hendrick Emans.
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Nicasius Janse Cowenhoven (4), was born in Brooklyn,
June 30th (or July Sth), 1681. He married Elsie ,
and died September i6th, 1749, in Brooklyn. His will
was dated May 15th, 1746, and proved October 14th,
1749.
His issue were:
Gerradina (5), born in Brooklyn in 1705, married
Symon Van Wickelen, had issue.
John, born in Brooklyn in 1707, married Catharine
Remsen, died 1778.
Gerret, married (i) Sarah , (2) Autie Bergen,
died 1783, had issue.
Peter, married Elizabeth Debevoise.
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, p. 79.)
Gerradina (5), daughter of Nicasius Janse and Elsie
Cowenhoven, was born in Brooklyn in 1705, and baptized
August 7th, 1705. She married Symon Van Wickelen
(see Van Wickle Family, p. 170),
(Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, pp.
79. 367-)
who died in 1755.
(Will Book F., p. 257, Secty. of State's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
They had two sons :
Evert, married Cornelia Lapardus, died 1757, had issue.
Nicholas (6), married Catherine or Tryntje Boice in
1749, died in 1801, had issue.
Nicholas Van Wickle (6), son of Symon Van W^ickelen,
married Tryntje (Catharine) Boice, daughter of John
Boice, by license dated May 27th, 1749. (See Boice
Family, p. 196.) They had six children, four sons and
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two daughters. He died in 1801 at Matcheponix (near
Jamesburg), N. J.
(Marriage License Book V, 1739-61. Will Book
39, p. 276. Book A. N. of Deeds, page 377,
Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, N. J. Bible
Records in Vol. 2552, pp. 46, 47, at Gen. Soc.
of Pa.)
Jacob Van Wickle (7), youngest son of Nicholas Van
Wickle and Catherine Boice, was born May loth, 1770,
at Matcheponix, N. J. On June 24th, 1792, he married
Sarah Morgan, daughter of Captain James Morgan and
Margaret Evertsen. (See Morgan Family, p. 192.)
They had ten children, four sons and six daughters.
He died at Old Bridge, N. J., April 2nd, 1854, and his
wife September 21st, 1835. He was for forty years
Judge in Middlesex County, N. J.
(Records of St. Peter's Church, Spottswood, N. J.
Van Wickle Bible Records, Copies in Vol. 2552,
pp. 36, 37, 38, 42, 43, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Catherine Van Wickle (8), daughter of Judge Jacob
Van Wickle and Sarah Morgan, was born at Old Bridge,
N. J., May 24th, 1800, and on February nth, 1822,
married her cousin, Simon Van Wickle, son of John
Van Wickle (the brother of Judge Jacob Van Wickle)
and Anne Rue.
(See Van Wickle and Rue Families, pp. 174, 183.)
Simon Van Wickle died October 27th, 1829, and his
wife, Catherine, on March 23rd, 1895, at Lyons, N. Y.
They had two daughters and one son.
(Copy of Church Records in Vol. 2552, pp. 40,
42, 43, 44; Vol. 2553, p. 16, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
Cephise Laura Van Wickle (9), daughter of Simon and
Catherine Van Wickle was born in Lyons, N. Y., January
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2nd. 1826. She married on October 6th, 1846, John
Budd Slawson, son of EHhu Slawson and Esther Case.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
He died February 12th, 1886, and his wife on April
23rd, 1893.
They had two daughters :
Alice Hyacinthe (10), born August 21st, 1S47, married
William D. Aiken, had issue.
Kate Laura, born April 6th. 1853, married William C.
Seddon, died April 23rd. 1803, had issue.
Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (10). daughter of John B.
Slawson and Cephise L. Van Wickle, was born in New
Orleans, La., August 21st, 1847. She married on April
6th, 1875, W'illiam David Aiken, son of James Reid
Aiken and Eliza Jane Cloud.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
They had four sons and two daughters:
Cephise Hyacinthe (ii), born February 13th, 1877,
married L. Irving Reichner, had issue.
Leila Alice, born on December 4th, 1878, married
Clough S. Steele, had issue.
Budd Slawson, born on December 2nd, 1880.
William David, Jr., born on July nth. 1S82.
James Hugh, born on January 14th, 18S4, died un-
married on September 15th, 191 5.
John Morgan, born on September 23rd, 1S90.
Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (n), daughter of William D.
Aiken and Alice H. Slawson was born in Winnsboro,
S. C, February 13th, 1877. She married June 17th,
1897, Louis Irving Reichner, son of Louis Reichner, Jr.,
and Christiana Stephens.
(See Reichner Famil3\ p. 14.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (12), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (12), born August 29th,
1905-
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APPLEGATE, VAN BAAL AND
TELLER FAMILIES
OF
NEW YORK
VAN BAAL (Van Balen) FAMILY
Jan Hendrickse Van Baal (Van Balen) was born about
1636. He was a Freeholder in Beverwyck (Albany)
1661-78, a Patentee on the Normanskill in 1661. Magis-
trate of Fort Orange and Indian Commissioner 1664,
1666, 1670, 1672. Cornet in the Troop of Captain
Jeremias Van Rensselaer in 1670. Judge of Court of
Admiralty in 1664, 1672.
(Register of the Colonial Dames of the State of
New York, 1893, 1913, p. 398.)
He married Helena Teller, widow of Cornelis Bogardus,
and daughter of V/illiam Teller, Senior, and Margaret
Donckesen (or Dunces). She was born in 1645. (See
Teller Family, p. 214.) She died in 1707, leaving a will
dated November 20th, 1706, proved March, 1707.
They had the following children:
Henry Van Baal, who died before 1716.
Maria Van Baal, married Isaac DePeyster, had issue.
Margaret Van Baal, married 1697 (by marriage license
dated December 13th, 1697) Captain Nicholas Evertsen.
Helena Van Baal, miarried January ist, 1700, Gual-
teras DuBois, had issue.
Rachel Van Baal, married (i) October 5th, 1699,
Petrus Bayard, (2) Henry Wileman.
Hannah Van Baal.
(Ancient History of New York, by Purple, pp. 105,
106, at Hist. Soc. of Pa.)
Margaret Van Baal (2), daughter of Jan Hendrickse
Van Baal and Helena Teller, married by license of
December 13th, 1697, Captain Nicholas Evertsen, of New
York, son of Evert Evertson.
(See Evertsen Family, p. 200.)
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She joined the Dutch Church in New York on March
ist, 1683.
They had two sons :
Nicholas (3), baptized May 29th, 1699.
Johannes, baptized January 29th, 1701.
(Ancient History of New York, by Purple, pp.
105, 106, at Hist. Soc. of Pa.)
Their son, Nicholas Evertsen (3) married Susanna
Roeters.
(See Evertson Family, p. 200.)
Their daughter, Margaret Evertsen (4), married
James Morgan.
(See Morgan Family, p. 190.)
Their daughter, Sarah Morgan ( 5 ) , married Jacob
Van Wickle.
(See V'an Wickle Family, p. 172.)
Their daughter, Catherine Van Wickle (6), married
Simon Van Wickle.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 174.)
Their daughter, Cephise Laura Van Wickle (7),
married John B. Slawson.
(vSee Slawson Famil}'. p. 157.)
Their daughter, Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (8), married
WilHam D. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
Their daughter, Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (9), married
L. Irving Reichner (see Reichner Family, p. 14), and
they have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (10), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner do), born August 29th,
1905.
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TELLER FAMILY
William Teller (i) was born in 1620, and came to New
Netherlands in 1639. He settled at Fort Orange (Albany)
and was one of the Proprietors of Schenectady, although
he probably never lived there. He was engaged in trade
in Albany and removed to New York in 1692.
(New York Gen. and Biog. Records, Vol. II, p.
139. Pearson's First Settlers of Albany.)
He married (i) Margaret Donckesen (or Dunces), (2)
Maria Varleth, and died in 1701. His will, dated March
19th, 1698, was proved May 23rd, 1701.
His children by his first wife were :
Andries, born 1642, married May 6th, 1671, Sophia
Van Courtlandt, died 1702, had issue.
Helena (2), born 1645, married (i) Cornells Bogardus,
had issue, (2) Jan Hendrickse Van Baal, had issue, (3)
Francois Romout.
(Ancient History of New York, by Purple, pp. 103,
104, 105.)
Helena Teller (2), who married Jan Hendrickse Van
Baal, had a daughter.
(See Van Baal Family, p. 212.)
Margaret Van Baal (3), married Nicholas Evertsen.
(See Evertsen Family, p. 200.)
Their son, Nicholas Evertsen (4), married Susanna
Roeters.
(See Evertsen Family, p. 200.)
Their daughter, Margaret Evertsen (5), married James
Morgan.
(See Morgan Family, p. 190.)
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Their daughter, Sarah Morgan (6), married Jacob
Van Wickle.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 172.)
Their daughter, Catherine Van Wickle (j), married
Simon Van Wickle.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 174.)
Their daughter, Cephise Laura Van Wickle fS),
married John B. Slawson.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
Their daughter, Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (9), mar-
ried William D. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
Their daughter, Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (10),
married L. Irving Reichner (see Reichner Family, p. 14),
and they have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (11), born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (11), born August 29th,
1905.
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APPLEGATE FAMILY
Thomas Applegate (i) and his wife, Elizabeth, came,
probably, from Norfolkshire, England. He was a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1635,
and was licensed to keep a ferry between Weymouth and
Draintree. The family moved to Rhode Island, and in
1 64 1 to New Amsterdam. He was one of the Patentees
of Flushing, Long Island, in 1645, and on November nth,
1646, purchased land in Gravesend; no doubt, it was
part of this land he sold to Charles Al organ, his son-in-
law, on April 15th, 1649.
He died in 1662, leaving the following children:
Bartholomew, who married Hannah Patrick, had issue.
John, who married Avis .
Thomas, who married Johanna Gibbons, died 1699.
Helena, who married (i) Thomas Farrington, (2) Louis
Hulet, (3) Charles Morgan.
(Stillwells Hist. & Gen. Misc., Vol. Ill, pp. i, 4.)
Helena Applegate (2), daughter of Thomas and Eliza-
beth Applegate, married three times. Her third husband,
whom she married February 9th, 1648, was Charles
Morgan (Carle Morgyn), son of George Morgan, of
Wales.
CSee Morgan Family, p. 188.)
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DOVE FAMILY
OF
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
NEW JERSEY
DOVE FAMILY
Alexander Dove (i), was born in Shropshire, England,
in 1663, and in 1700 came to America with his wife, Jane
(born January 25th, 1671). He died October 7th, 1732,
and his wife on November 9th, 1754. Both are buried
in the Topanemus Burying Ground, near Freehold, N. J.
(Stillwell's Hist. & Gen. Misc., Vol. H, p. 288.
Will Book C, p. 299, Secretary of vState's Office,
Trenton, N. J.)
In 1 701 the Proprietors granted Alexander Dove a lot
in Perth Amboy, N. J., which on March 3rd, 1 701, he sold
to George Willocks.
Captain John Anderson on February loth, 1701, also
sold him a tract on the Manalapan River.
(Deed Book H, pp. 16, 119, Sect'y of State's
Office, Trenton, N. J.)
The children of Alexander Dove, were :
Mary.
Jane, married French.
Margaret (2), married Matthew LaRue (Rue).
Elizabeth, married William Laird.
Hannah, married Joshua Lee in 1739.
Isabella, married John Buckalew.
Samuel.
(R. P., Vol. I, p. 63. Deed Book A 3, p. 192,
Sect'y of State's Office, Trenton, N. J.)
Margaret (2), daughter of Alexander Dove, married
Matthew LaRue of Staten Island. (See Rue -Family,
p. 180.)
(Vol. 2553, p. 49, at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
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Their son, John Rue (3), married Petronella
Their son John Rue (4), married Sythe Voorhees,
nee Boice.
(See Boicc Family, p. 196.)
Their daughter, Anne Rue (5), married John Van
Wickle.
(See Rue Family, p. 181.)
Their son, Simon Van Wickle (6), married Catherine
Van Wickle.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 174.)
Their daughter, Cephise L. Van Wickle (7), married
John B. Slawson.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
Their daughter, Alice H. Slawson (8), married WilHam
D. Aiken.
(See Aiken Family, p. 145.)
Their daughter, Cephise H. Aiken (9), married L.
Irving Reichner.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons:
Aiken Reichner (10).
Morgan Stephens Reichner (10).
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DE SILLE FAMILY
OF
NEW YORK
DESILLE FAMILY
Nicasius De Sille (i), born 1543, was from ]\Iechlin in
Belgium, and came to Amsterdam shortly after the
revolt of the United Provinces against Spain, and was
sent in 1587 with others on an embassy to Queen Eliza-
beth of England. He was Ambassador to Denmark, and
afterward to Germany, and was frequently sent a
Deputy to the States-General, and was twice Commis-
sioner to the Army. While in the field he died August
22nd, 1600, aged 57 years, and is buried in the Choir of
the Red Church at Amsterdam.
His son was:
Laurens De Siile (2), Advocate Fiscal of the vStates-
General, or United Netherlands.
His son was:
Nicasius De Sille (3) (immigrant ancestor;, who was
bom in Arnheim, Guelderland, Holland, in 16 10.
(See DeSihe Bible Records, Vol. 2552, pp. 45, 114,
at Gen. Soc. of Pa.)
He came to America in 1653. His first wife is sup-
posed to have been Marie de la Montaigne, whom he
married in Holland. He was commissioned First Coun-
sellor to Director General Peter Stuyvesant from 1653 to
1657. His commission described him as a "man well
versed in the law and not unacquainted with military
affairs, of good character and satisfactory acquirements."
He was directed to "reside at Fort Amsterdam and to
deliberate with the Governor in all affairs relating to
war, police and national force, to keep inviolate and
increase all alliances of friendship and commerce, to
assist in the administration of justice, criminal and civil,
and to advise the Governor in all events and occurrences
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that might transpire in the colonys." He superintended
the preparation of the fleet and accompanied it in the
expedition to the Delaware River against the Swedes in
1655. He was commissioner to superintend the fortifi-
cations of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1653, ^^nd was Shout
Fiscal (Treasurer) of New Amsterdam in 1656-7. He
was Vice- Director of the Colony during the absence of
Governor Stuyvesant in the West Indies 1654-165 5, and
was Commissioner of Boundaries 1654, 1656. He was
Captain-Lieutenant of the Burgher Corps in 1656, and
Shout Fiscal of New Utrecht in 1660, where he was
alloted a plantation and became a Proprietor in 1657.
He obtained a patent December 28th, 1660, for 25
morgens of land. He was a Commissioner to settle
affairs at the Suydat Rivier Colony in 1659, and to
survey and enclose Bruckelen (Brooklyn) and Nieuw
Utrecht in 1660. His house was the first house erected
in the town of New Utrecht in 1657, and he resided there
until after 1668. (New Utrecht was the part of Brooklyn
south of Greenwood Cemetery.) His house and garden
were "surrounded by palisades set close together and it
was fortified and a place of refuge for the inhabitants."
His old stone house with a tile roof, east of the church,
was torn down in 1850 by Barent Wyckoff, its last
occupant.
Nicasius DeSille was a man of great education and a
poet, having composed in verse "Imitations of the
Psalms," "Epitaph on a Cortelyou Child," "The
Earth Speaks to its Cultivators." He was a Doctor of
Laws, and translated the Psalms from Hebrew into
Dutch. He had four children by his first wife:
Laurence, who married a daughter of Capt. Martin
Creigier, and was a clerk in the Secretary's office. He
took the oath of allegiance to the English in 1664, and in
1672 returned to the Hague.
Anna, who married Hendrick Kip, Jr., had issue.
(Ancient Families of New York, by Purple, p. 56.)
and Gerdientje (4) (Gerradina), who married Jan
Gerretse A^an Cowenhoven, of Brooklyn Ferry, had issue.
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Nicasius DeSille married a second time, his wife being
Tyrentjie Cruger, from whom he separated soon after
the marriage. He died in 1694.
(Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist, of N. Y., Vol. 2, p. 440.
Cal. of N. Y. Hist. Dutch. O'Callaghan's
Hist, of New Netherlands, Vol. 2, p. 236.
Brodhead's Hist, of N. Y., Vol. I, Anthology of
New Netherland. Ancient History of New York,
by Purple, p. 56, footnote. DeSille Bible
Records, copy in Vol. 2552, pp. 45- "4, at
Gen. Soc. of Pa. Register of Colonial Dames
of State of New York, 1893-1913, P- 298.
Bergen's Early Settlers of Kings County, pp..
96, 312. New York Patents. Vol. 4. P- S3- New
York Documentary History, Vol. i, p. 633.)
Gerdientje (Gerradina) De Sille (4), daughter of Nica-
sius De Siile, married Jan Gerretse Van Cowenhoven,
born in 1639, son of Gerret Wolfertse Van Cowenhoven
and Altie Cool.
(See Cowenhoven Family, p. 206.)
Their son was :
Nicasius Janse Van CowenhoveD (5), born June 30th,
1681, married Elsie , died September i6th, 1749-
Their daughter was :
Gerradina Van Cowenhoven (5), born August 7th, 1705.
married Symon Van Wickelen, son of Evert Janse Van
Wickelen and Elizabeth Van Lieuw.
(See Van Wickle Family, p. 170-)
Their son was :
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Nicholas Van Wickelen (6), who married Catherine
Boice, daughter of John Boice.
(See Boice Family, p. 196.)
He died in 1 80 1 .
Their son was:
Jacob Van Wickle (7), born May loth, 1770, died
April 6th, 1854, married June 24th, 1792, Sarah Morgan,
born August i6th, 1772, daughter of James Morgan and
Margaret Evertsen.
(See Morgan Family, p. 192.)
She died September 21st, 1825.
Their daughter was :
Catherine Van Wickle (8), born May 24th, 1800, died
March 23rd, 1895, married February nth, 1823, Simon
Van Wickle, born October 14th, 1773, son of John Van
Wickle and Ann Rue.
(See Van Wickle and Rue Families, pp. 174, 181.)
He died October 27th, 1829.
Their daughter was :
Cephise Laura Van Wickle (9), born January 2nd, 1826,
died April 23rd, 1893, married October 6th, 1846, John
Budd Slawson, born February 19th, 1814. son of Ehhu
vSlawson and Esther Case.
(See Slawson Family, p. 157.)
He died February 12th, 1886.
Their daughter was :
Alice Hyacinthe Slawson (10), born August 21st, 1847.
married April 6th, 1875, William David Aiken, born
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July 19th, 1846, son of James Reid Aiken and Eliza Jane
Cloud.
(See Aiken Family, p. i45-)
Their daughter was :
Cephise Hyacinthe Aiken (11), born February 13th,
1877, married June 17th, 1897, Louis Irving Reichner,
bom July 14th, 1871, son of Louis Reichner, Jr., and
Christiana Stephens.
(See Reichner Family, p. 14.)
They have two sons :
Aiken Reichner (12J, born June 4th, 1900.
Morgan Stephens Reichner (12), born August 29th,
1905-
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